Word

כַּפְתֹּר

kaphtôr · H3730 · Hebrew · 18 occurrences

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Thing

Column, pillar, capitalBuildings and Structures99 verses

Meanings

calyx

Object in the shape of the bud of a flower; part of the lampstand located in the tabernacle; added for decoration purposes

Examples
Exodus 25:31 “Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand, its base and its shaft, are to be made of hammered work; its cups, its bulbs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
Exodus 25:33 “Three cups shall be shaped like almond blossoms on the one branch, a bulb and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the other branch, a bulb and a flower—the same for six branches going out from the lampstand;
Exodus 25:34 and on the lampstand four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers.
capital

Top part of pillar

Examples
Amos 9:1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said, “Strike the pillar capitals so that the thresholds will shake, And break them on the heads of them all! Then I will put to death the rest of them with the sword; They will not have a fugitive who will flee, Nor a survivor who will escape.
Zephaniah 2:14 Flocks will lie down in her midst, All animals that range in herds; Both the pelican and the hedgehog Will spend their nights in the tops of her pillars; Birds will sing in the window, Devastation will be on the threshold; For He has uncovered the cedar work.

How it’s used In 5 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

7 occurrences in 2 groups

הּher 5
הֶםtheir 2

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 2

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

נָכָהto strike, to strike down 1

What it is said to bePredicate

6 occurrences in 1 groups

קָנֶהreed, branch 6

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with 2

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 3 entries

Furnishings001003001001008: This word denotes a decorative knop or capital, an ornamental architectural element on the lampstand and other furnishings (Exodus 25:31-36), so it belongs among furnishing terms.
Constructions001003002: The same word also denotes an upper lintel or capital atop a structural post (Amos 9:1, Zephaniah 2:14), a structural building element, so it also belongs among construction terms.
Names of Locations003001010: This entry carries no independent place-name sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the noun for an ornamental cup or bulb on the lampstand, as in “Three cups shall be shaped like almond blossoms on the one branch, a bulb and a flower” (Exodus 25:33). The “Names of Locations” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme כַּפְתֹּר (Kaphtôr, H3731), the place name Caphtor, rather than independently attested here.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3730. kaphtor I. כַּפְתֹּר כַּפְתּוֺר noun masculine 1 capital, 2 knob, bulb ( 2 perhaps…

H3730. kaphtor
I. כַּפְתֹּר כַּפְתּוֺר noun masculine
1 capital,
2 knob, bulb (
2 perhaps earlier meaning; HoffmZAW iii. (1883), 124, compare Syriac pear (LöwNo. 153), from shape); —
1 כַּפְתּוֺר Amo 9:1 capital of pillar; so plural suffix כַּפְתֹּרֶיהָ Zep 2:14.
2 כַּפְתֹּר, knob or bulb, ornament on the golden lamp-stand in tabernacle; ᵐ5 σφαιρωτήρ, JosArchaeology iii, 6, 7 ρὁΐσκος small pomegranate; ᵑ9. sphaerula: — Exo 25:33 (twice in verse); Exo 25:35 (3 t. in verse) = Exo 37:19 (twice in verse); Exo 37:21 (3 t. in verse); suffix כַּפְתֹּרֶיהָ Exo 25:31, Exo 25:34 = Exo 37:17, Exo 37:20, כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶם Exo 25:36 = Exo 37:22 (all P).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Furnishings16 occurrences Constructions2 occurrences Names of Locations0 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0