כִּפֻּר
kippur · H3725 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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atonement
Causative action by which a priest performs the rituals that are required to remove guilt or uncleanness from people or objects, which usually requires a blood sacrifice or another kind of compensation
ExamplesExodus 29:36 “Each day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement, and you shall purify the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to consecrate it.
Exodus 30:10 “However, Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year; he shall make atonement on it with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once a year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD.”
Exodus 30:16 “And you shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and give it for the service of the tent of meeting, so that it may be a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for yourselves.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
7 occurrences in 4 groups
- יוֹםday, time 3
- חַטָּאָהsin, sin offering 2
- אַיִלram 1
- כֶּסֶףsilver 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Innocent002003003015
- This word denotes atonement, the act by which a person or the people are forgiven and reckoned innocent, the abstract noun paired with the verb כָּפַר (kâphar, H3722), so it belongs among words for innocence.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3725. kippur כִּמֻּרִים noun plural abstract atonement, only in P: הַכּ ׳הַטַּאת…
כִּמֻּרִים noun plural abstract atonement, only in P: הַכּ ׳הַטַּאת sin-offering of the atonement Exo 30:10; Num 29:11; (ה)כ ׳יוֺם day of (the) atonement Lev 23:27-28, Lev 25:9; הַכּ ׳אֵיל Num 5:8; ׳עַלהַֿכּ Exo 29:36; הכ ׳כֶּסֶף Exo 30:16 money of atonement.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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.
Sources
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