Lexical Summary karkom: saffron Original Word: כַּרְכֹּםTransliteration: karkom Phonetic Spelling: (kar-kome') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: saffron Meaning: the crocus Strong's Concordance saffron Probably of foreign origin; the crocus -- saffron. Brown-Driver-Briggs H3750. karkom כַּרְכֹּם noun [masculine] saffron (crocus sativus) (Late Hebrew id.; and verb denominative כִּרְכֵּם; Hithpa`el grow yellow, pale; Aramaic כּוּרְכְּמָא, Arabic = κρόκος, crocus; LagGes. Abh. 58, No. 147; so also JHMordtsab Denkm. 83 f.; otherwise DHMib., who compare Sabean כמכם, Arabic = Greek κάγκαμον); — Song of Solomon 4:14; on meaning see especially LöwNo. 162. |
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