כְּפוֹר kephor

Hebrew word for “bowl” · Strong’s H3713 · used 12 times in 6 verses

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Meaning

bowl, basin

Senses in the lexicon

• bowl (9)
• frost (3)

How it is translated

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

• bowls 5
• bowl 4
• frost 2
• like frost 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 16 (1), 1 Chronicles 28 (1), Ezra 1 (1), Ezra 8 (1), Job 38 (1), Psalms 147 (1)

Forms

• ולכפורי 2
• לכפור 2
• וכפור 2
• כפורי 2
• וכפרי 1
• ככפר 1
• וכפר 1
• כפור 1

Words used with it

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

• זָהָב zahav “gold” 3
• כְּלִי keli “article/utensil” 2
• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 2
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 2

Key verses

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

• Exodus 16:14 — And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
• 1 Chronicles 28:17 — Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason; and likewise silver by weight…
• Ezra 1:10 — Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
• Ezra 8:27 — Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
• Job 38:29 — Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
• Psalms 147:16 — He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.

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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.