Dromedary
כִּרְכָּרָהStrong’s H3753karkarah (kar-ka-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Karkarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “on camels”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.”
Meaning
- Dromedary, dromedary camel, beasts
How it's translated
- and on camels 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
כִּרְכָּרָה karkarah · dromedary
dromedary, dromedary camel, beasts
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dromedary” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DROMEDARY, noun
[Gr., perhaps from swiftness, running.]
A species of camel, called also the Arabian camel, with one bunch or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two bunches. It has four callous protuberances on the fore legs, and two on the hind ones. It is a common beast of burden in Egypt, Syria, and the neighboring countries.
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.