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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3603

כִּכָּר

kikkarkik-kawr'

Plain (of Jericho)

68 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: kikkâr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3603is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 16 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 35
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3603

a circle, i.e. (by implication) a circumjacent tract or region, especially the Ghor or valley of the Jordan; also a (round) loaf; also a talent (or large [round] coin)

The King James renders it: loaf, morsel, piece, plain, talent.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

kikkar is rendered "Plain (of Jericho)". It stands 68 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.

  • Eleven of the uses stand in 1 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 13:10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
  • The Greek text spells it thirty-five different ways.

The first use

And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Genesis 13:10כִּכַּ֣ר

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in sixteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 23 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • talent of16
  • talents7
  • a talent of5
  • talent5
  • the valley5
  • a round loaf of3
  • talents of3
  • a talent2
  • and a round loaf of2
  • and a talent of2
  • in valley of2
  • round loaves of2

and 10 more, 68 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

כִּכֵּרkikkertalentUses1

All 68, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

35 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • כִּכַּר־9
  • כִּכַּ֣ר6
  • כִכַּר־5
  • הַכִּכָּ֔ר4
  • כִּכַּ֥ר4
  • הַכִּכָּ֑ר3
  • כִּכָּ֑ר3
  • בְּכִכַּ֤ר2
  • וְכִכַּ֥ר2
  • כִּכָּ֛ר2
  • כִּכְּר֣וֹת2
  • כִּכְּרֵ֥י2

and 23 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)27HNcfsc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular11HTd/Ncfsa
  • noun · feminine singular7HNcfsa
  • noun · masculine plural7HNcmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HC/Ncfsc
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmpc
  • noun · feminine dual2HNcfda
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfpc
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncfsc
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural2HR/Ncmpa
  • preposition + noun · feminine dual1HR/Ncfda

Genesis

seven uses
  • And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

    Genesis 13:10

    • כִּכַּ֣רkikarnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: valley of
  • So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.

    Genesis 13:11

    • כִּכַּ֣רkikarnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: valley of
  • Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

    Genesis 13:12

    • הַכִּכָּ֔רhakikarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the valley
  • As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

    Genesis 19:17

    • הַכִּכָּ֑רhakikarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the valley
  • Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.

    Genesis 19:25

    • הַכִּכָּ֑רhakikarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the valley
  • He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

    Genesis 19:28

    • הַכִּכָּ֑רhakikarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the valley
  • So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.

    Genesis 19:29

    • הַכִּכָּ֔רhakikarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the valley

Exodus

nine uses
  • The lampstand and all these utensils shall be made from a talent of pure gold.

    Exodus 25:39

    • כִּכָּ֛רkikarnoun · feminine singulartagged: a talent
  • along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.

    Exodus 29:23

    • וְכִכַּ֨רvekhikarconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a round loaf of
  • He made the lampstand and all its utensils from a talent of pure gold.

    Exodus 37:24

    • כִּכָּ֛רkikarnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a talent of
  • All the gold from the wave offering used for the work on the sanctuary totaled 29 talents and 730 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

    Exodus 38:24

    • כִּכָּ֔רkikarnoun · feminine singulartagged: talent
  • The silver from those numbered among the congregation totaled 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel—

    Exodus 38:25

    • כִּכָּ֑רkikarnoun · feminine singulartagged: talent
  • The hundred talents of silver were used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent per base.

    Exodus 38:27

    • כִּכַּ֣רkikarnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
    • הַכִּכָּ֖רhakikarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the talent
    • כִּכָּ֥רkikarnoun · feminine singulartagged: a talent
  • The bronze from the wave offering totaled 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.

    Exodus 38:29

    • כִּכָּ֑רkikarnoun · feminine singulartagged: talent

Deuteronomy

one use
  • the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.

    Deuteronomy 34:3

    • הַכִּכָּ֞רhakikarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the district

Judges

one use
  • So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

    Judges 8:5

    • כִּכְּר֣וֹתkikerotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: round loaves of

1 Samuel

two uses
  • And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”

    1 Samuel 2:36

    • וְכִכַּר־vekhikar-conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a round loaf of
  • Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

    1 Samuel 10:3

    • כִּכְּר֣וֹתkikerotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: round loaves of

2 Samuel

two uses
  • Then he took the crown from the head of their king. It weighed a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.

    2 Samuel 12:30

    • כִּכַּ֤רkikarnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a talent of
  • “No matter what, I want to run!” he replied. “Then run!” Joab told him. So Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and outran the Cushite.

    2 Samuel 18:23

    • הַכִּכָּ֔רhakikarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the plain

1 Kings

seven uses
  • The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.

    1 Kings 7:46

    • בְּכִכַּ֤רbekhikarpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in valley of
  • And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.

    1 Kings 9:14

    • כִּכַּ֥רkikarnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
  • They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.

    1 Kings 9:28

    • כִּכָּ֑רkikarnoun · feminine singulartagged: talent
  • Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was such an abundance of spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

    1 Kings 10:10

    • כִּכַּ֣רkikarnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
  • The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,

    1 Kings 10:14

    • כִּכַּ֥רkikarnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
  • He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the name of Shemer, who had owned the hill.

    1 Kings 16:24

    • בְּכִכְּרַ֣יִםbekhikerayimpreposition + noun · feminine dualtagged: for two talents
  • As the king passed by, he cried out to the king: “Your servant had marched out into the middle of the battle, when suddenly a man came over with a captive and told me, ‘Guard this man! If he goes missing for any reason, your life will be exchanged for his life, or you will weigh out a talent of silver.’

    1 Kings 20:39

    • כִכַּר־khikar-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a talent of

2 Kings

nine uses
  • “Go now,” said the king of Aram, “and I will send you with a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman departed, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of clothing.

    2 Kings 5:5

    • כִּכְּרֵי־kikerei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talents of
  • “Everything is all right,” Gehazi replied. “My master has sent me to say, ‘I have just now discovered that two young men from the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.’”

    2 Kings 5:22

    • כִּכַּר־kikar-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a talent of
  • But Naaman insisted, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged Gehazi to accept them. Then he tied up two talents of silver in two bags along with two sets of clothing and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them ahead of Gehazi.

    2 Kings 5:23

    • כִּכָּרָ֑יִםkikarayimnoun · feminine dualtagged: two talents
    • כִּכְּרַ֨יִםkikerayimnoun · feminine dualtagged: two talents
  • Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.

    2 Kings 15:19

    • כִּכַּר־kikar-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
  • So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

    2 Kings 18:14

    • כִּכַּר־kikar-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
    • כִּכַּ֥רkikarnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
  • And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

    2 Kings 23:33

    • כִכַּר־khikar-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
    • וְכִכַּ֥רvekhikarconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a talent of

1 Chronicles

eleven uses
  • Then he distributed to every man and woman of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.

    1 Chronicles 16:3

    • כִּכַּר־kikar-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a round loaf of
  • When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.

    1 Chronicles 19:6

    • כִּכַּר־kikar-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
  • Then David took the crown from the head of their king. It was found to weigh a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.

    1 Chronicles 20:2

    • כִּכַּר־kikar-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a talent of
  • Now behold, I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the LORD—100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron too great to be weighed. I have also provided timber and stone, and you may add to them.

    1 Chronicles 22:14

    • כִּכָּרִ֤יםkikarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: talents
    • כִּכָּרִ֔יםkikarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: talents
  • three thousand talents of gold (the gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the buildings,

    1 Chronicles 29:4

    • כִּכְּרֵ֥יkikereinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talents of
    • כִּכַּר־kikar-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
  • Toward the service of God’s house they gave 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.

    1 Chronicles 29:7

    • כִּכָּרִ֣יםkikarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: talents
    • כִּכָּרִים֙kikarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: talents
    • כִּכָּרִ֑יםkikarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: talents
    • כִּכָּרִֽים׃kikarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: talents

2 Chronicles

ten uses
  • Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.

    2 Chronicles 3:8

    • לְכִכָּרִ֖יםlekhikarimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: to talents
  • The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zeredah.

    2 Chronicles 4:17

    • בְּכִכַּ֤רbekhikarpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in valley of
  • So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

    2 Chronicles 8:18

    • כִּכַּ֣רkikarnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
  • Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

    2 Chronicles 9:9

    • כִּכַּ֣רkikarnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
  • The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,

    2 Chronicles 9:13

    • כִּכְּרֵ֥יkikereinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talents of
  • He also hired 100,000 mighty warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

    2 Chronicles 25:6

    • כִכַּר־khikar-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
  • Amaziah asked the man of God, “What should I do about the hundred talents I have given to the army of Israel?” And the man of God replied, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.”

    2 Chronicles 25:9

    • הַכִּכָּ֔רhakikarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the talent
  • Jotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them, and that year they gave him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley. They paid him the same in the second and third years.

    2 Chronicles 27:5

    • כִּכַּר־kikar-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
  • And the king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

    2 Chronicles 36:3

    • כִכַּר־khikar-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of
    • וְכִכַּ֥רvekhikarconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a talent of

Ezra

three uses
  • I weighed out into their hands 650 talents of silver, articles of silver weighing 100 talents, 100 talents of gold,

    Ezra 8:26

    • כִּכָּרִים֙kikarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: talents
    • לְכִכָּרִ֑יםlekhikarimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: of talents
    • כִכָּֽר׃khikarnoun · feminine singulartagged: talent

Nehemiah

two uses
  • And next to him, the priests from the surrounding area made repairs.

    Nehemiah 3:22

    • הַכִּכָּֽר׃hakikarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the surrounding region
  • The singers were also assembled from the region around Jerusalem, from the villages of the Netophathites,

    Nehemiah 12:28

    • הַכִּכָּר֙hakikarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the district

Esther

one use
  • If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”

    Esther 3:9

    • כִּכַּר־kikar-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: talent of

Proverbs

one use
  • For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

    Proverbs 6:26

    • כִּכַּ֫רkikarnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a round loaf of

Jeremiah

one use
  • So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

    Jeremiah 37:21

    • כִכַּר־khikar-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a round loaf of

Zechariah

one use
  • And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.

    Zechariah 5:7

    • כִּכַּ֥רkikarnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a round cover of

The letters

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Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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