Karkor

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a town in Transjordania (OS)

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they rested

Google Maps: Karkor (32° 11´, 35° 42´)

Hebrew

Strongs #07174: rqrq Qarqor

Karkor = "foundation"

1) a place east of the Jordan in Gilead where Zebah and Zalmunna
were again routed by Gideon

7174 Qarqor kar-kore'

from 6979; foundation; Karkor, a place East of the
Jordan:-Karkor.
see HEBREW for 06979

Karkor [EBD]

foundation, a place in the open desert wastes on the east of Jordan (Judg. 8:10), not far beyond Succoth and Penuel, to the south. Here Gideon overtook and routed a fugitive band of Midianites under Zeba and Zalmunna, whom he took captive.

Karkor [NAVE]

KARKOR, a city in Gad, Judg. 8:10.

KARKOR [SMITH]

(foundation), the place in which Zebah and Zalmunna were again routed by Gideon, (Judges 8:10) must have been on the east of Jordan.

KARKOR [ISBE]

KARKOR - kar'-kor (qarqor): An unidentified place where Gideon surprised and overwhelmed the remnants of the army of Zeba and Zalmunnah (Jdg 8:10 ff). It probably corresponds to Qarkar mentioned by Shalmaneser II, S. of Hamath (KB, I, 173).