כֹּפֶר (kōper) is a Hebrew noun meaning pitch. It appears 17 times in 10 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3724).
כְּפִירִים: villages
כֹּפֶר noun, masculine: village
Strong's H3715 כְּפִיר: a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane)
KJV:(young) lion, village. Compare H3723.
Strong's H3724 כֹּפֶר: properly, a cover, i.e. (literally) a village (as covered in); (specifically) bitumen (as used for coating), and the henna plant (as used for dyeing); figuratively, a redemption-price
KJV:bribe, camphire, pitch, ransom, satisfaction, sum of money, village.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 1025: כפר kpr — Root of: כְּפִיר young lion; כְּפִירִים villages; כָּפָר village, village of the Ammonites; כֹּ֫פֶר El Ḥenna; כֹּפֶר villages
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