qarqa (floor) · Rightly

Meaning

Floor, bottom

How it's translated

floor of 2
the floor 2
on floor of 1
from floor of 1
from the floor 1
at bottom of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

1 Kings 4
Numbers 1
Amos 1

3 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

1 Kings 6:15And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
1 Kings 6:16And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
1 Kings 6:30And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
1 Kings 7:7Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
Amos 9:3And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

Hebrew dictionary

קַרְקַע qarqa · floor

floor, bottom

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “floor” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FLOOR, noun

flore. [In early ages, the inhabitants of Europe had no floor in their huts, but the ground. The sense of the word is probably that which is laid or spread.]

That part of a building or room on which we walk; the bottom or lower part, consisting, in modern houses, of boards, plands or pavement; as the floor of a house, room, bar, stable or outhouse.
A platform of boards or plans laid on timbers, as in a bridge; any similar platform.
A story in a building; as the first or second floor
A floor or earthen floor is still used in some kinds of business, made of loam, or of lime, sand and iron dust, as in malting.

All definitions and other forms of “floor”

The bottom of a ship, or that part which is nearly horizontal.

FLOOR, verb transitive

To lay a floor; to cover timbers with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.