כֹּפֶר
kôpher · H3724 · Hebrew · 18 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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pitch, tar
Tarlike substance; naturally derived from petroleum; used in certain areas to make objects watertight
ExamplesGenesis 6:14 “Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with compartments, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
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ransom, bribe
A sum of money demanded or paid, either legally or illegally, in exchange for a service, or in exchange for someone's freedom or someone's life
ExamplesExodus 21:30 “If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him.
Exodus 30:12 “When you take a census of the sons of Israel to count them, then each one of them shall give a ransom for himself to the LORD, when you count them, so that there will be no plague among them when you count them.
Numbers 35:31 ‘Moreover, you shall not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is condemned to death, but he must be put to death.
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unwalled village
Collection of dwellings, not surrounded by a wall
Examples1 Samuel 6:18 and the gold mice, corresponding to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five governors, both of fortified cities and of country villages. The large stone on which they placed the ark of the LORD is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.
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Henna
A fragrant shrub two to three meters tall whose leaves yield a red juice used to color the skin and hair, associated with fragrance and beauty
ExamplesSong of Solomon 1:14 “My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms In the vineyards of Engedi.”
Song of Solomon 4:13 “Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates With delicious fruits, henna with nard plants,
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 2
- פְּרָזִיunwalled towns 1
- ךָyour 1
- הוּhis 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שִׁיתto set, to put, to make 1
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- לָקַחto take, to receive 3
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 2
- מָצָאto find 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֹשֶׁרwealth 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָשָׁעwicked 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 4
- עַדto, as far as, until 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- לָקַחto take, to receive 1
- פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1
- רֹבmultitude, abundance, numerous 1
- אֶשְׁכּוֹלcluster 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- פְּדוּת pᵉdûwth · H6304 · redemption, salvation, deliverance
- The target term denotes a ransom, satisfaction or sum of money, and פְּדוּת (pᵉdûwth, H6304) denotes redemption; both involve payment made for release.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Bitumen001002005002
- One sense of this word is pitch or bitumen, a tar-like substance used for waterproofing (as with Noah's ark), so it belongs among terms for bitumen.
- Exchange002003002010
- The same word denotes a bribe, ransom, or sum of money paid in exchange for something (often for a life), so it also belongs among terms for exchange or payment.
- Towns001003002011
- The word is also used for a village, an alternate sense distinct from its payment-related meanings, so it also belongs among terms for settlements.
- Plants001002007001
- The word further denotes camphire (henna), a flowering plant used for its fragrant blossoms (Song of Solomon 1:14, 4:13), so it also belongs among plant terms.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3724. kopher I. כֹּפֶר noun masculine the price of a life, ransom (ποινή, wergild); — ׳כ…
I. כֹּפֶר noun masculine the price of a life, ransom (ποινή, wergild); — ׳כ Exo 21:30 Exo 21:10t.; suffix כָּפְרְךָ Isa 43:3; כָפְרוֺ Psa 49:8; —
1 a price for ransom of a life Job 33:24; Job 36:18; ׳כ עַל Exo 21:30 (Covt. code; || נַפְשׁוֺ מִּדְיֹן); ׳כ נפשׁ Pro 13:8; ׳כ לְ ransom for Pro 6:35; Pro 21:18; Num 35:31-32, (P); כָּפְרוֺ his ransom Psa 49:8 ׅ || פדה (; כָּפְרְךָ thy ransom Isa 43:3 ׅ || תַּחְתֶּיךָ (; כֹּפֶר alone 1Sa 12:3; Amo 5:12.
2 in the ritual of P ׳כ נַפְשׁוֺ Exo 30:12 is a half shekel of the sanctuary paid by each male above twenty years at the census in order that there might be no plague upon them. It was offered to Yahweh, על לְכַמֵּר to atone for them.
II. כֹּ֫פֶר noun masculine pitch (Arabic (loan-word, compare Frä150), Syriac ᵑ7. כּוּפְרָא; Assyrian kupru, kupur DlHWB 348; compare גֹּפֶר ?) — Gen 6:14 (P).
III. כֹּ֫פֶר noun masculine name of a plant, El „enna (√ dubious; Late Hebrew כּוֺפֶר; Aramaic כּוּפְרָא, Arabic El „enna, see LöwNo. 159) — a shrub or low tree, with fragrant whitish flowers growing in clusters like grapes, הַכֹּפֶר אֶשְׁכֹּל cluster of Henna Son 1:14 (fragrant, figurative of a beloved one); plural כְּפָרִים Son 4:13.
IV. כֹּפֶר noun [masculine] village; — only singular construct הַמְּרָזִי כֹּפֶר 1Sa 6:18 villages of the peasantry.
הָעַמּוֺנִי כְּפַר see כָּפָר above
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
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