כֹּפֶר
kōper
pitch
Strong's H3724NounHebrewTWOT 1025d

כֹּפֶר (kōper) is a Hebrew noun meaning pitch. It appears 17 times in 10 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3724).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1025d)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1025d)villages; village; young lion, cover, bitumen, henna plant, redemption-price; lion, bribe, camphire, pitch, ransom, satisfaction, sum of money
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

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

See it in Scripture

Genesis 6:14Exodus 30:12Numbers 35:31

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