כִּיֹּר kiyyor

Hebrew word for “basin” · Strong’s H3595 · used 23 times in 20 verses

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Meaning

1) pot, basin, laver, pan; 1a) pot, caldron; 1b) fire-pot, brazier; 1c) basin, laver; 1d) platform, stage

How it is translated

Glosses given for kiyyor in context, with how often each is used:

• laver 15
• lavers 5
• pot 1
• platform 1
• like a pot 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 7 (4), Exodus 40 (3), Exodus 30 (2), 2 Chronicles 4 (2), Exodus 31 (1), Exodus 35 (1), Exodus 38 (1), Exodus 39 (1), Leviticus 8 (1), 1 Samuel 2 (1)

Forms

• הכיר 8
• הכיור 4
• כיור 3
• הכירות 2
• בכיור 1
• לכיר 1
• כירות 1
• הכירת 1
• כיורים 1
• ככיור 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kiyyor more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• כֵּן ken “stand” 8
• נְחֹשֶׁת nechoshet “bronze” 8
• מְכוֹנָה mekhonah “base” 5
• מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 8
• כְּלִי keli “article/utensil” 5
• מוֹעֵד moed “meeting” 4
• עֹלָה olah “burnt offering” 4
• רָחַץ rachats “to wash” 3
• אֹהֶל ohel “tent” 4
• מִכְבָּר makhber “grate” 2
• עֶשֶׂר eser “ten” 3
• שָׁם sham “there” 4

Key verses

The verses using kiyyor that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 30:18 — Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and…
• Exodus 38:8 — And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of…
• Exodus 40:7 — And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
• Exodus 40:30 — And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.
• Leviticus 8:11 — And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.
• 1 Samuel 2:14 — And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the…
• 1 Kings 7:38 — Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
• 1 Kings 7:40 — And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
• 2 Kings 16:17 — And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put…
• 2 Chronicles 4:6 — He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed…
• 2 Chronicles 6:13 — For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon…
• Zechariah 12:6 — In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.