Saffron
כַּרְכֹּםStrong’s H3750karkom (kar-kom)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Karkom is the Hebrew word usually translated “saffron”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:”
Meaning
- Saffronan orange-yellow flower of the crocus family, used for flavouring in drinks and confections in order to promote perspiration for cooling of the body
How it's translated
- and saffron 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
כַּרְכֹּם karkom · saffron
1) saffron 1a) an orange-yellow flower of the crocus family, used for flavouring in drinks and confections in order to promote perspiration for cooling of the body
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “saffron” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SAF'FRON, noun
[The radical sense is to fail, or to be hollow, or to be exhausted.
- A plant of the genus Crocus.
- In the materia medica, saffron is formed of the stigmata of the Crocus officinalis, dried on a kiln and pressed into cakes.
All definitions and other forms of “saffron”
SAF'FRON, adjective
Having the color of saffron flowers; yellow; as a saffron face; a saffron streamer.
SAF'FRON, verb transitive
To tinge with saffron; to make yellow; to gild.
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.