Lexicon karkom: saffron Original Word: כַּרְכֹּםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: karkom Phonetic Spelling: (kar-kome') Short Definition: saffron NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionsaffron NASB Translationsaffron (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs כַּרְכֹּם noun [masculine] saffron ( crocus sativus) (Late Hebrew id.; and verb denominative כִּרְכֵּם; Hithpa`el grow yellow, pale; Aramaic כּוּרְכְּמָא,  Arabic  = κρόκος, crocus; Lag Ges. Abh. 58, No. 147; so also JHMordt sab Denkm. 83 f.; otherwise DHM ib., who compare Sabean כמכם, Arabic  = Greek κάγκαμον); — Songs 4:14; on meaning see especially Löw No. 162. Strong's saffron Probably of foreign origin; the crocus -- saffron. |
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