כֹּתֶרֶת koteret

Hebrew word for “capital” · Strong’s H3805 · used 24 times in 12 verses

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Meaning

capital crown, capital of a pillar

How it is translated

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

• capital 13
• capitals 10
• belonged to the capitals 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 7 (8), 2 Chronicles 4 (2), 2 Kings 25 (1), Jeremiah 52 (1)

Forms

• הכתרת 10
• לכתרת 5
• וכתרת 4
• הכתרות 2
• כתרת 1
• והכתרות 1
• הכותרת 1

Words used with it

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

• שְׂבָכָה sevakhah “latticework” 9
• עַמּוּד ammud “pillar” 11
• רִמּוֹן rimmon “pomegranate” 6
• גֻּלָּה gullah “bowl” 4
• שֵׁנִי sheni “second” 6
• טוּר tur “row” 4
• אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 5
• כָּסָה kasah “to cover” 5
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 7
• אֶחָד echad “one” 7
• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 6
• קוֹמָה qomah “height” 3

Key verses

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

• 1 Kings 7:16 — And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other…
• 1 Kings 7:17 — And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the…
• 1 Kings 7:18 — And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the…
• 1 Kings 7:19 — And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
• 1 Kings 7:20 — And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in…
• 1 Kings 7:31 — And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon…
• 1 Kings 7:41 — The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters…
• 1 Kings 7:42 — And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the…
• 2 Kings 25:17 — The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and…
• 2 Chronicles 4:12 — To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the…
• 2 Chronicles 4:13 — And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the…
• Jeremiah 52:22 — And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of…

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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.