Brown-Driver-Briggs   כַּרְכֹּם  noun [masculine] saffron (crocus sativus) (Late Hebrew id.; and verb denominative כִּרְכֵּם; Hithpa`el grow yellow, pale; Aramaic כּוּרְכְּמָא,   Arabic   = κρόκος, crocus; LagGes. Abh. 58, No. 147; so also JHMordtsab Denkm. 83 f.; otherwise DHMib., who compare Sabean כמכם, Arabic   = Greek κάγκαμον); — Songs 4:14; on meaning see especially LöwNo. 162. Forms and Transliterations וְכַרְכֹּ֗ם וכרכם vecharKom wə·ḵar·kōm wəḵarkōmLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts | 
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 = κρόκος, crocus; LagGes. Abh. 58, No. 147; so also JHMordtsab Denkm. 83 f.; otherwise DHMib., who compare Sabean כמכם, Arabic 
 = Greek κάγκαμον); — 


