Talent
כִּכָּרStrong’s H3603kikkar (kik-kar)
Appears in 55 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kikkar is the Hebrew word usually translated “talent of”, “talents” and “valley”. It appears in 55 verses of the Old Testament.
“And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.”
Meaning
- This name means plain, level valley
- Rounda round district (environs of the Jordan valley) · a round loaf (of bread) · a round weight, talent (of gold, silver, bronze, iron)
How it's translated
- talent of 16
- talents 7
- the valley 5
- a talent of 5
- talent 5
- talents of 3
- a round loaf of 3
- valley of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 9
- Genesis 7
- Exodus 7
- 1 Kings 7
- 2 Kings 6
- 1 Chronicles 6
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 13:10And 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 garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
- Genesis 13:11Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
- Genesis 13:12Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
- Genesis 19:17And 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; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
- Genesis 19:25And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
- Genesis 19:28And 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.
All 55 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בִּקְעָה biqah · Valley (of Jericho)
This name means plain, level valley Another name of kik.kar (כִּכָּר "Plain" H3603G)
כִּכָּר kikkar · talent
1) round 1a) a round district (environs of the Jordan valley) 1b) a round loaf (of bread) 1c) a round weight, talent (of gold, silver, bronze, iron) Aramaic equivalent: kik.ker (כִּכֵּר "talent" H3604)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “talent” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TAL'ENT, noun
[Latin talentum; Gr. to bear, allied to Latin tollo. The word is said to have originally signified a balance or scales.]
- Among the ancients, a weight, and a coin.
- talent among the Hebrews, was also a gold coin, the same with a shekel of gold; called also stater, and weighing only four drachmas.
- Faculty; natural gift or endowment; a metaphorical application of the word, said to be borrowed from the Scriptural parable of the talents. Matthew 25:24
- Eminent abilities; superior genius; as, he is a man of talents.
All definitions
- Particular faculty; skill.
- [Sp. talante, manner of performing any thing, will, disposition.] Quality; disposition.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.