STRONGS NUMBER H3750


Word Summary
karkom: saffron
Original Word: כַּרְכֹּם
Transliteration: karkom
Phonetic Spelling: (kar-kome')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: saffron
Meaning: the crocus
Strong's Concordance
saffron

Probably of foreign origin; the crocus -- saffron.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3750. karkom

כַּרְכֹּםnoun [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); — Song of Solomon 4:14; on meaning see especially LöwNo. 162.