Lexicon
בִּכְרָה
bikh.rah
H1072
H:N-F Hebrew

young camel

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bikh.rah denotes a female young camel pictured as swift and twisting her ways.

The sole attested use presents a female young camel as a swift animal twisting her ways.

Senses in use

  1. Female young camel in a comparison · dominant

    In Jeremiah 2:23, the feminine singular absolute noun occurs in the comparison following the call to consider a way in the valley; the APB renders the image as “a swift young camel twisting her ways.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Jeremiah 2:23, the APB presents the image as “a swift young camel twisting her ways.” The precise contribution of the noun is inferred from its place in that animal comparison.

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