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Karka meaning

קרקע

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🔼The name Karka: Summary

Meaning
Floor, Ground
Etymology
From the noun קרקע (qarqa'), floor, possibly from root קרר (qarar), to compact.

🔼The name Karka in the Bible

The name Karka (or Karkaa according to some translations) occurs only once in the Bible. It's one of the cities that marked the southern border of the territory allotted to the tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:3).

🔼Etymology of the name Karka

The name Karka is identical to the noun קרקע (qarqa'), meaning floor. Because of its form and application, this noun might be associated to the following root cluster:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary
קרר

Root קרר (qarar) means to cool off in a thermodynamic sense: to go from hot gas to cool liquid to a cold solid. Socially this would describe warring tribes "cooling off" into culturally compatible peoples and liquid trading networks and ultimately the formation of cities and solid nations. Intellectually, diverse viewpoints might congeal into local conventions and ultimately a global standard.

Adjective קר (qar) means cool. Nouns קר (qor) and קרה (qara) mean cold. Noun מקרה (meqera), meaning coolness.

Noun קיר (qir) is one of a few words for wall. It might relate to the root because bricks are congealed mud, and a wall is bricks pieced together (non-standard bricks take some puzzling and pounding). The noun קרקע (qarqa') means floor; earth trampled into a compact state. The verb קרקר (qarqar) means to forcibly compact, to pound down.

קרה

Verb קרה (qara), and its by-form קרא (qara'), mean to near, to meet or to happen upon. Noun קורה (qora) describes a rafter or beam; the things that come together to form a roof, and which obviously relate to bricks pieced into a wall. Verb קרה (qara) means to piece beams together and noun מקרה (meqareh) means literally place of beams; beam-work.

Nouns קרה (qareh) and מקרה (miqreh) mean chance or accident, fortune or fate. Noun קרי (qeri) means opposition, contrariness. At a social level, chance meetings and opposition are the very rafters that carry society's roof.

For this same reason, the nouns קריה (qiryah) and קרת (qeret) are the words for city and federation of cities.

קרא

Verb קרא (qara'), which is identical to the by-form of the previous, means to call or call near. Adjective קריא (qari') means called or summoned. Noun קריאה (qeri'a) means proclamation. And noun מקרא (miqra') means convocation or called assembly. The noun קרא (qore') describes a partridge; literally "a caller."

🔼Karka meaning

For a meaning of the name Karka, NOBSE Study Bible Name List reads Floor, Ground, Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names proposes The Floor, Ground , Pavement and BDB Theological Dictionary simply has Floor.