E 0089         BEOCERE, BIKAR

Old English " beocere " and Old Saxon " bikar " are of Germanic origin .

H 0502            ר כ

Concept of root : bag for provisions

Hebrew word

pronunciation

English meanings

ר כ

kar

knapsack

Related English words

Old English : beocere (beehive)

Comparison between European words and Hebrew

Languages

Words

Pronunciation

English meanings

Similarity in roots

Hebrew

ר כ

kar

knapsack, haversack

k . r

Old English

beocere

beehive

c . r

Old Saxon

bikar

beehive

k . r

Dutch

kaar

kaar

basket,

live box, beehive

k . r

 

 

Hebrew *KAR --- *KĀR- Proto-Germanic

 

 

This Hebrew word, "kar", is Biblical only. Like its Dutch sister, "kaar", it stands for a sack or basket used to carry supplies.

 

The word "kar" is found in Genesis 31:34 in "kar hagamal = 'kar' of the camel" . Some scholars translate this as the "camel saddle", because the text explains that beautiful Rachel in order to hide from Laban some idols he came searching for, put them in the "camel 'kar'" and then sat upon it . Others call the "kar" a knapsack . The solution is simple : camel saddles had sacks incorporated , a bit like what one may call packsaddles.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Germanic. Older Germanic languages have this word in some composed words, like Old Saxon bikar and Old English beocere, both meaning "beehive". Old High-German "char" and Old Norse "ker" have the same specific meanings we find in Hebrew and Dutch, and also stand for "cask" or "tank".
    Obviously the first parts of Old English " beocere" and Old Saxon "bikar" mean " bee ". Proto-Germanic may have had a form "*K Ā R" in the sense of this entry.

 

Note:
  • Dutch "kaar" in modern language is mostly used to indicate a fish-basket. The word as such is probably related to "korf" that stands for "basket" in general and has been loaned into English as "corf" with a specific meaning for use in mines.

 

Note:
  • Proto-Semitic. There is little dependable information for a hypothesis for the specific meaning of "basket, live box".

 

Note:
  • Indo-European. There is no information from other languages for a hypothesis different from Proto-Germanic.

 

 

 

 
"...the town, to which was given the name Babel, because it was there that the Lord confused the language of all the world on the face of which He dispersed them. GENESIS 11,9"
 
Created: Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 22.30.54 Updated: 01/11/2012 at 9.32.21