Bible Dictionary · K
Karkor
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.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Judges 8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
