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Lexicon :: Strong's H3722 - kāp̄ar

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כָּפַר
Transliteration
kāp̄ar
Pronunciation
kaw-far'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1023,1024,102

Strong’s Definitions

כָּפַר kâphar, kaw-far'; a primitive root; to cover (specifically with bitumen); figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel:—appease, make (an atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon, purge (away), put off, (make) reconcile(-liation).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 102x

The KJV translates Strong's H3722 in the following manner: atonement (71x), purge (7x), reconciliation (4x), reconcile (3x), forgive (3x), purge away (2x), pacify (2x), atonement...made (2x), merciful (2x), cleansed (1x), disannulled (1x), appease (1x), put off (1x), pardon (1x), pitch (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 102x
The KJV translates Strong's H3722 in the following manner: atonement (71x), purge (7x), reconciliation (4x), reconcile (3x), forgive (3x), purge away (2x), pacify (2x), atonement...made (2x), merciful (2x), cleansed (1x), disannulled (1x), appease (1x), put off (1x), pardon (1x), pitch (1x).
  1. to cover, purge, make an atonement, make reconciliation, cover over with pitch

    1. (Qal) to coat or cover with pitch

    2. (Piel)

      1. to cover over, pacify, propitiate

      2. to cover over, atone for sin, make atonement for

      3. to cover over, atone for sin and persons by legal rites

    3. (Pual)

      1. to be covered over

      2. to make atonement for

    4. (Hithpael) to be covered

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כָּפַר kâphar, kaw-far'; a primitive root; to cover (specifically with bitumen); figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel:—appease, make (an atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon, purge (away), put off, (make) reconcile(-liation).
STRONGS H3722: Abbreviations
כִּפֶּר verb Pi. etc.denominative cover over (figurative), pacify, make propitiation; —
Pi. Perfect כִּפֶּר Exodus 30:10 + 31 times; 2nd person masculine singular suffix כִּפַּרְתָּ֑הוּ Ezekiel 43:20; 3rd person masculine plural יְכַפְּרוּ Ezekiel 43:26; 2nd person masculine plural כִּפַּרְתֶּם Ezekiel 45:20; Imperfect יְכַפֵּר Exodus 30:10 + 10 times; יְכַפֶּר־ Leviticus 7:7; Numbers 5:8; suffix יְכַפְּרֶנָּה Proverbs 16:14; 1st person singular אֲכַפֵּר 2 Samuel 21:3; אֲכַפְּרָה Genesis 32:21; Exodus 32:30, etc.; Imperative כַּפֵּר Deuteronomy 21:8 + 4 times; Infinitive כַּפֵּר Exodus 30:15 + 28 times; suffixes כַּפְּרִי Ezekiel 16:63; כַּפֶּרְךָ Exodus 29:36; כַּפְּרָהּ Isaiah 47:11; —
1. cover over, pacify, propitiate; בַּמִּנְחָה פָנָיו אֲכַפְּרָה Genesis 32:21 let me cover his face by the present (so that he does not see the offence, i.e. pacify, him; E; RSOTJC, 2d ed., 381 'wipe clean the face,' blackened by displeasure, as the Arabs say 'whiten the face'); הֹוָה עָלַיִךְ וְתִפֹּל כַּפְּרָהּ תוּכְלִי לֹא Isaiah 47:11 and disaster will fall upon thee, thou wilt not be able to propitiate it (by payment of a כֹּפֶר, see Isaiah 43:3); pacify the wrath of a king Proverbs 16:14 (e.g. by a gift).
2. cover over, atone for sin, without sacrifice :
a. man as subject, אֲכַפֵּר בַּמָּה 2 Samuel 21:3, with what shall I cover over (namely, the bloodguiltiness of the house of Saul, says David The answer is by a death penalty of seven sons of the guilty house); בְּעַר חטאתכם Exodus 32:30 on behalf of your sins (J E; Moses, by intercession); with על of persons Numbers 17:11; Numbers 17:12 (P; by incense), Numbers 25:13 (P when Phinehas slays the ringleaders).
b. with God as subject, with accusative of person, cover, i.e. treat as covered, view propitiously, Yahweh's land Deuteronomy 32:43 (song); לְ person Deuteronomy 21:8 (bloodguiltiness flows away in the stream), Ezekiel 16:63; בְּעַד of person 2 Chronicles 30:18; with accusative of the sin Psalm 65:4; Psalm 78:38, probably also Daniel 9:24 (|| ׅחתם ׅחטאת); עַל of sin, Psalm 79:9; Jeremiah 18:23 ׅ || (מחה. It is conceived that God in his sovereignty may himself provide an atonement or covering for men and their sins which could not be provided by men.
3. cover over, atone for sin and persons by legal rites, in the codes of H, P, and Ezekiel: absolute הַכֹּהֵן וכ׳ and the priest shall make atonement Leviticus 16:32;
a. with accusative of sacred places (by the great sin-offering of the day of atonement), Leviticus 16:20, 33 (twice in verse); also Ezekiel 43:20, 26; Ezekiel 45:20 (by the blood of the sin-offering || חִטֵּא, טִהַר).
b. usually with עַל
(1) of things, e.g. of the altar to which the blood of the sin-offering was applied Exodus 29:36, 37; Exodus 30:10; Leviticus 8:15 ׅ || (קִדַּשׁ, Leviticus 16:18; and specifically the horns of the altar Exodus 30:10; the holy place of the tabernacle Leviticus 16:16 (by the great sin-offering, because of (מִן) the uncleannesses of the children of Israel and because of their transgressions); for the leprous house by ceremony of purification Leviticus 14:53 ׅ || (טִהַר; for the goat לעזאזל Leviticus 16:10 (which was presented before Yahweh to consecrate him for the bearing away of the sins of the people).
(2) of persons, נפשׁתיכם עלֿ, for your persons, yourselves, e.g. by the payment of atonement-money הַכִּפֻּרִים כֶּסֶף at the census Exodus 30:15, 16; by the קרבן of the spoils Numbers 31:50; by the blood upon the altar Leviticus 17:11; in the ritual עֲלֵיהֶם, עָלָיו by ministry of priest through the blood of the sin-offering Leviticus 4:20, 31; Leviticus 8:34; Leviticus 10:17; Leviticus 12:7, 8; Leviticus 14:19, 31; Leviticus 16:30, 33; Leviticus 23:28; Numbers 8:12, 21; Numbers 15:25, 28 (twice in verse); Numbers 28:22, 30; Numbers 29:5; 2 Chronicles 29:24; Nehemiah 10:34; of the trespass-offering Leviticus 5:16, 18; Leviticus 5:26; Leviticus 7:7; Leviticus 14:21; Leviticus 19:22; Numbers 5:8; the whole burnt-offering Leviticus 1:4; Leviticus 14:20; Leviticus 16:24; by the oil used in purifying a leper Leviticus 14:18, 29; by the תרומה Ezekiel 45:15; by the priestly ministry in general 1 Chronicles 6:34; by the substitution of the Levites for the firstborn Numbers 8:19. Underlying all these offerings there is the conception that the persons offering are covered by that which is regarded as sufficient and satisfactory by Yahweh. (The purpose of the covering is stated Leviticus 16:30 יְכַפֵּר תִּטְהָ֑רוּ י׳ לִפְנֵי חַטֹּאתֵיכֶם מִכֹּל אֶתְכֶם לְטַהֵר עֲלֵיכֶם = shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you, from all your sins shall ye be clean before Yahweh, and Numbers 8:21 לְטַהֲרָם עֲלֵיהֶם וַיְכַפֵּר and (Aaron) made atonement for them to cleanse them.)
c. the need of the atonement is expressed by מִן : **others understand מִן as = away from; compare DiLev 4:26, RiSühne 50 f. מֵחטאתו because of his sin Leviticus 4:26; Leviticus 5:6, 10; Leviticus 16:34; מטמאתו Leviticus 14:19; Leviticus 16:16; מזוב Leviticus 15:15, 30; מֵאֲשֶׁר חָטָא Numbers 6:11; also עַל עַלחַֿטָּאתוֺ on account of his sin Leviticus 4:35; Leviticus 5:13; Leviticus 19:22; עלשֿׁגגתוֺ Leviticus 5:18.
d. with בְּ instrumental בְּאֵיל Leviticus 5:16; Leviticus 19:22; Numbers 5:8; with a trespass-offering Leviticus 7:7; יְכַפֵּר בַּנֶּפֶשׁ הוּא כִּי־הַדָּם Leviticus 17:11 for it is the blood with the living being that covers over (H, see נפשׁ 3 (a); RV by reason of the life after De Di Kn Bähr Kau and most moderns; AV follows Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate. Targum. so Ges Ew§ 282 a. Anm. 1 : ' for the soul '); with בְּ local בַּקֹּדֶשׁ Leviticus 6:23; Leviticus 16:17, 27.
e. with בַּעַד person, on behalf of Leviticus 9:7 (twice in verse); Leviticus 16:6, 11, 17, 24 (by Aaron), Ezekiel 45:17 (by the prince).
Pu. Perfect כֻּפַּר Exodus 29:33; Isaiah 28:18 (but read תֻּפַר, — √ I. פרר, — so Targum. Hu We Che SS and others see BrMP 209); Imperfect יְכֻפַּר Numbers 35:33 + 3 times; 3rd person feminine singular תְּכֻפָּ֑ר Isaiah 6:7 be covered over, atoned for.
1. apart from the ritual, חטאתך תכפר Isaiah 6:7 thy sin shall be covered over (|| וְסָר עֲוֺנֶךָ; by the touch of the live coal from the altar); הַזֶּה הֶעָוֺן אִם־יְכֻפַּר לָכֶםIsaiah 22:14 surely this iniquity shall not be covered over; with בְּ instrumental בזאת יכפר עון Isaiah 27:9 by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be covered over (|| הָסר חטאתו namely by the destruction of idolatrous objects); עוןבחסד יאמת יכפר Proverbs 16:6 by mercy and fidelity iniquity is covered over.
2. with לְ for whom, לארץ לא יכפר לדם Numbers 35:33 for the land atonement cannot be made, in view of the blood shed in it, except by the blood of the shedder of blood; in the ritual of P, with בְּ instrumental בָּהֶם כֻּפַּר אֲשֶׁר Exodus 29:33 wherewith atonement was made (ram of consecration).
Hithp. Imperfect יִתְכַּפֵּר 1 Samuel 3:14; with בְּ instrumental אִם־ וּבְמִנְחָה בְּזֶבַח בֵּית־עֵלִי עֲוֹן יִתְכַּפֵּר the iniquity of the house of Eli shall not be covered by peace offering or minchah (in other words there was no atonement for it; compare Pu. Isaiah 22:14).
Niph. Perfect הַדָּם לָהֶם וְנִכַּפֵּר Deuteronomy 21:8 and the blood shall be covered for them.

† II. [כָּפַר] verb denominative (from II. כֹּפֶר) — Perfect 2nd person masculine singular וְכָֽפַרְתָּ֫ בַּכֹּפֶד Genesis 6:14 and thou shalt pitch it with pitch (P).
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Strong's Number H3722 matches the Hebrew כָּפַר (kāp̄ar),
which occurs 103 times in 94 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:14 - Make a teivah of gofer wood. You shall make rooms in the teivah, and shall seal it inside and outside with kofer.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20 - You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Ya`akov, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:33 - They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:36 - Every day shall you offer the bull of sin-offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:37 - Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:10 - Aharon shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:15 - The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of the LORD, to make atonement for your souls.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:16 - You shall take the atonement money from the children of Yisra'el, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Yisra'el before the LORD, to make atonement for your souls."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:30 - It happened on the next day, that Moshe said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:4 - He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:20 - Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the Kohen shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:26 - All its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of shalom offerings; and the Kohen shall make atonement for him concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:31 - All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from off of the sacrifice of shalom offerings; and the Kohen shall burn it on the altar for a sweet savor to the LORD; and the Kohen shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:35 - All its fat he shall take away, like the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of shalom offerings; and the Kohen shall burn them on the altar, on the offerings of the LORD made by fire; and the Kohen shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:6 - and he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the Kohen shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:10 - He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the Kohen shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:13 - The Kohen shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the Kohen's, as the meal offering.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:16 - He shall make restitution for that which he has done amiss in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the Kohen; and the Kohen shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:18 - He shall bring a ram without blemish from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the Kohen; and the Kohen shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn't know it, and he will be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:7 - The Kohen shall make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty."
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:30 - No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten: it shall be burned with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:7 - "'As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The Kohen who makes atonement with them, he shall have it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:15 - He killed it; and Moshe took the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:34 - What has been done this day, so the LORD has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:7 - Moshe said to Aharon, "Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as the LORD commanded."
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:17 - "Why haven't you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:7 - and he shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. "'This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8 - If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the Kohen shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:18 - The rest of the oil that is in the Kohen's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the Kohen shall make atonement for him before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:19 - "The Kohen shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:20 - and the Kohen shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The Kohen shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:21 - "If he is poor, and can't afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an efah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:29 - The rest of the oil that is in the Kohen's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:31 - even such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The Kohen shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before the LORD."
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:53 - but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean."
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:15 - and the Kohen shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The Kohen shall make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:30 - The Kohen shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the Kohen shall make atonement for her before the LORD for the uncleanness of her discharge.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:6 - "Aharon shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:10 - But the goat, on which the lot fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement for him, to send him away for the scapegoat into the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:11 - "Aharon shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:16 - and he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Yisra'el, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting, that dwells with them in the midst of their uncleanness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:17 - There shall be no one in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Yisra'el.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:18 - "He shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull's blood, and some of the goat's blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:20 - "When he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:24 - Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:27 - The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried forth outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:30 - for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:32 - The Kohen, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be Kohen in his father's place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:33 - Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the Kohanim and for all the people of the assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:34 - "This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Yisra'el once in the year because of all their sins." It was done as the LORD commanded Moshe.

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