Lexical Definition

‎קַרְקַע‎ qarqaʻ (kar-kah') floor ^H:N-M
from ‎קָרַע‎

bottom, ([idiom] one side of the) floor.

• floor (as if a pavement of pieces or tesseroe), of abuilding or the sea

1) floor, bottom

See Greek: βάθος · ἔδαφος · ἔσω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎קַרְקַע‎ noun [masculine] floor (probably reduplication from a √ ‎קרר‎, or ‎קור‎; Late Hebrew id., ground, so ᵑ7 ‎קַרְקְעָא‎, ‎קַרְקָעִיתָא‎; apparently = Assyrian ‡a‡‡aru, ground, earth, Arabic terra aequabilis mollisque; compare Kö^{ii. 1, 91}); — absolute ‎׳‎‎ק‎ 1Kgs 6:16; 1Kgs 7:7a, ‎קָ֑ע‎- v1Kgs 7:7b (see below); construct ‎קַרְקַע‎ Num 5:17 +; — floor of temple 1Kgs 6:15 (twice in verse); 1Kgs 6:16; 1Kgs 6:30; 1Kgs 7:7a; v1Kgs 7:7b read probably ‎הַקּוֺרוֺת‎ rafters (compare 1Kgs 6:15 and ‎קוֺרָה‎) ᵑ6 ᵑ9 Th Sta Kmp^Kau Benz; (earth)- floor of tabernacle Num 5:17 ‎קַרְקַע הַיָּם‎ Amos 9:3 the floor, bottom of the sea.

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