qar.qa denotes a floor or ground-level surface, whether in a building, the tabernacle, or the sea.

The term most often identifies the constructed lower surface of a house or hall, described with boards, cedar, or gold. It also marks a ground-level setting: dust is taken from the tabernacle’s surface, and people may hide at the sea’s bottom.

1. Constructed interior surface · dominant

   In 1 Kings 6:15 the construct-form tokens occur in the description of cedar boards extending from the house’s lower surface to the ceiling and of cypress boards covering that surface; the APB renders the clause with “floor of the house.” In 1 Kings 6:30, the same construct form identifies the house surface overlaid with gold, while 1 Kings 6:16 and 1 Kings 7:7 place the absolute form in building descriptions extending from the lower surface upward.

   1 Kings 6:151 Kings 6:161 Kings 6:301 Kings 7:7
2. Ground or bottom as a location · occasional

   In Numbers 5:17, the construct form identifies the surface from which dust lying in the tabernacle is taken. In Amos 9:3, the construct form marks the location in the sea where people might hide; the APB renders it “the floor of the sea.”

   Numbers 5:17Amos 9:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited verses, the APB usually presents the term as “floor,” including “floor of the house,” “floor of the tabernacle,” and “floor of the sea.” These renderings reflect the verse contexts, but the translation does not align individual English words directly to the Hebrew token.