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title: קַרְקַע — Karkaa · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קַרְקַע (7173), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Karkaa. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קַרְקַע

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«קַרְקַע» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Karkaa** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7173 · **BDB:** קַרְקַע²

### Glosses

(the) (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Karkaa [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7173/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7173/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (floor);—c. art. + ה loc., הַקַּרְקָ֑עָה Jos 15:13, on extreme S. border of Judah; τὴν κατὰ δυσμὰς Καδης.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קַרְקַע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7173/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 15:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.3/)

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וְ֠יָצָא אֶל־מִנֶּ֜גֶב לְמַעֲלֵ֤ה עַקְרַבִּים֙ וְעָ֣בַר צִ֔נָה וְעָלָ֥ה מִנֶּ֖גֶב לְקָדֵ֣שׁ בַּרְנֵ֑עַ קָדֵ֣שׁ בַּרְנֵ֑עַ וְעָבַ֤ר חֶצְרוֹן֙ וְעָלָ֣ה אַדָּ֔רָה וְנָסַ֖ב הַקַּרְקָֽעָה׃

*Word for word:* and it.goes.out to from.\[the\] south of.\[the\] ascent of.scorpions and it.passes.on to Zin and it.goes.up from.\[the\] south of Kadesh Barnea and it.passes.on Hezron and it.goes.up to Addar and it.turns to (the) Karka

*JPS 1917:* And it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh-barnea, and passed along by Hezron, and went up to Addar, and turned about to Karka.

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