כִּכָּר kikkar

Hebrew word for “talent” · Strong’s H3603 · used 68 times in 55 verses

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Meaning

1) round; 1a) a round district (environs of the Jordan valley);

Senses in the lexicon

• talent (67)
• Plain (of Jericho) (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for kikkar in context, with how often each is used:

• talents 35
• valley 9
• talent 9
• round loaf 5
• two talents 3
• round loaves 2
• district 2
• plain 1
• surrounding region 1
• round cover 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 19 (4), Exodus 38 (4), Genesis 13 (3), 2 Kings 5 (3), 1 Kings 9 (2), 1 Kings 10 (2), 1 Chronicles 29 (2), 2 Chronicles 9 (2), 2 Chronicles 25 (2), Exodus 25 (1)

Forms

• ככר 34
• הככר 11
• ככרים 9
• וככר 4
• ככרי 3
• ככרות 2
• בככר 2
• לככרים 2
• בככרים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kikkar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• זָהָב zahav “gold” 21
• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 20
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 21
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 11
• יָקָר yaqar “precious” 5
• מִשְׁקָל mishqal “weight” 5
• לֶחֶם lechem “food” 7
• שְׁלֹמֹה shelomoh “Solomon” 6
• לוֹט lot “Lot” 4
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 6
• שֵׁשׁ shesh “six” 5
• שָׁלַח shalach “to send” 7

Key verses

The verses using kikkar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 13:10 — And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the…
• Genesis 19:17 — And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain;…
• Genesis 19:28 — And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
• Genesis 19:29 — And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew…
• 1 Kings 10:10 — And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices…
• 1 Kings 16:24 — And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of…
• 2 Kings 5:5 — And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six…
• 2 Kings 15:19 — And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in…
• 2 Kings 23:33 — And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents…
• 1 Chronicles 19:6 — And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire…
• 1 Chronicles 22:14 — Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of…
• Jeremiah 37:21 — Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the…

See all 55 verses in the Word Atlas

Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.