Lexicon qarqa: floor Original Word: קַרְקַעPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: qarqa Phonetic Spelling: (kar-kah') Short Definition: floor NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionfloor NASB Translationfloor (8).
Brown-Driver-Briggs I. קַרְקַע noun [masculine] floor (probably reduplication from a √ קרר, or קור; Late Hebrew id., ground, so ᵑ7 קַרְקְעָא, קַרְקָעִיתָא; apparently = Assyrian ‡a‡‡aru, ground, earth, Arabic  terra aequabilis mollisque; compare Kö ii. 1, 91); — absolute ׳ק 1 Kings 6:16; 1 Kings 7:7a, קָ֑ע- 1 Kings 7:7b (see below); construct קַרְקַע Numbers 5:17 +; — floor of temple 1 Kings 6:15 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 6:16,30; 1 Kings 7:7a; 1 Kings 7:7b read probably הַקּוֺרוֺת rafters (compare 1 Kings 6:15 and קוֺרָה) ᵑ6 ᵑ9 Th Sta Kmp Kau Benz; ( earth)- floor of tabernacle Numbers 5:17; קַרְקַע הַיָּם Amos 9:3 the floor, bottom of the sea. Strong's bottom, one side of the floor From qara'; floor (as if a pavement of pieces or tesseroe), of a building or the sea -- bottom, (X one side of the) floor. see HEBREW qara' |
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