Bible word study

Kikkar (Strong’s H3603): Meaning in the Bible

Kikkar (כִּכָּר) is the Hebrew word numbered H3603 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a circle, i.e. (by implication) a circumjacent tract or region, especially the Ghor or valley of the Jordan; also a (round) loaf; also a talent (or large [round] coin). In the King James Bible it is translated loaf, morsel, piece, plain, talent..

• Original wordכִּכָּר
• Transliterationkikkâr
• Pronunciationkik-kawr'
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH3603
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H3769;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Kikkar appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Kikkar (H3603) stands behind 68 English renderings in 55 verses across 16 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in 1 Chronicles (11), 2 Chronicles (10), Exodus (9).

How the King James Bible renders Kikkar, by count

• talents38 of 68 (56 percent)
• plain12 of 68 (18 percent)
• talent10 of 68 (15 percent)
• loaf2 of 68 (3 percent)
• loaves2 of 68 (3 percent)
• piece2 of 68 (3 percent)

Three places to read Kikkar

• Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
• 2 Samuel 12:30 And he took their king’s crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David’s head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.
• 1 Chronicles 22:14 Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Kikkar in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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