karka · floor

What it means

karka (קַרְקַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “floor”.

Ground, floor.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The ground surface; the depths of the sea.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• 1 Kings×6
• Amos×1

• Numbers 5:17

  And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and from the dust that is on the floor of the dwelling the priest shall take and put it into the water.

• 1 Kings 6:15

  And he built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling he overlaid them with wood on the inside; and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress.

• 1 Kings 6:16

  And he built the twenty cubits at the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls; and he built them for it on the inside as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.

• 1 Kings 6:30

  And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside.

• 1 Kings 7:7

  And the portico of the Throne, where he would judge, the portico of Judgment, he made; and it was roofed with cedar from the floor to the floor.

• Amos 9:3

  And if they hide on the top of Carmel, from there I will search out and take them; and if they conceal themselves from my sight on the floor of the sea, from there I will command the snake, and it will bite them.

And 2 more times.