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Lexicon :: Strong's H3724 - kōp̄er

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כֹּפֶר
Transliteration
kōp̄er
Pronunciation
ko'-fer
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1025b

Strong’s Definitions

כֹּפֶר kôpher, ko'-fer; from H3722; 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:—bribe, camphire, pitch, ransom, satisfaction, sum of money, village.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's H3724 in the following manner: ransom (8x), satisfaction (2x), bribe (2x), camphire (2x), pitch (1x), sum of money (1x), village (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's H3724 in the following manner: ransom (8x), satisfaction (2x), bribe (2x), camphire (2x), pitch (1x), sum of money (1x), village (1x).

  1. price of a life, ransom, bribe

  2. asphalt, pitch (as a covering)

  3. the henna plant, name of a plant (henna?)

  4. village

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כֹּפֶר kôpher, ko'-fer; from H3722; 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:—bribe, camphire, pitch, ransom, satisfaction, sum of money, village.
STRONGS H3724: Abbreviations
† I. כֹּפֶר noun masculine the price of a life, ransom (ποινή, wergild); — כ׳ Exodus 21:30 + 10 times; suffix כָּפְרְךָ Isaiah 43:3; כָפְרוֺ Psalm 49:8; —
1. a price for ransom of a life Job 33:24; Job 36:18; עַל כ׳ Exodus 21:30 (Covt. code; || מִּדְיֹן נַפְשׁוֺ); נפשׁ כ׳ Proverbs 13:8; לְ כ׳ ransom for Proverbs 6:35; Proverbs 21:18; Numbers 35:31, 32 (P); כָּפְרוֺ his ransom Psalm 49:8 ׅ || (פדה; כָּפְרְךָ thy ransom Isaiah 43:3 ׅ || (תַּחְתֶּיךָ; כֹּפֶר alone 1 Samuel 12:3; Amos 5:12.
2. in the ritual of P נַפְשׁוֺ כ׳ Exodus 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, לְכַמֵּר על to atone for them.

† II. כֹּ֫פֶר noun masculine pitch (Arabic bdb049801 (loan-word, compare Frä150), Syriac bdb049802 Targum. כּוּפְרָא; Assyrian kupru, kupur DlHWB 348; compare גֹּפֶר ?) — Genesis 6:14 (P).

III. כֹּ֫פֶר noun masculine name of a plant, El Ḥenna (√ dubious; Late Hebrew כּוֺפֶר; Aramaic כּוּפְרָא, bdb049901 Arabic El Ḥenna, see LöwNo. 159) — a shrub or low tree, with fragrant whitish flowers growing in clusters like grapes, אֶשְׁכֹּל הַכֹּפֶר cluster of Henna Songs 1:14 (fragrant, figurative of a beloved one); plural כְּפָרִים Songs 4:13.

† IV. כֹּפֶר noun [masculine] village; — only singular construct הַפְּרָןִי כֹּפֶר 1 Samuel 6:18 villages of the peasantry.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:14

Exodus

21:30; 21:30; 30:12

Numbers

35:31; 35:32

1 Samuel

6:18; 12:3

Job

33:24; 36:18

Psalms

49:8; 49:8

Proverbs

6:35; 13:8; 21:18

Song of Songs

1:14; 4:13

Isaiah

43:3; 43:3

Amos

5:12

H3724

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3724 matches the Hebrew כֹּפֶר (kōp̄er),
which occurs 17 times in 17 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:14 - Make therefore for thyself an ark of square timber; thou shalt make the ark in [fn]compartments, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:30 - And if a ransom should be imposed on him, he shall pay for the ransom of his soul as much as they shall lay upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:12 - If thou take account of the children of Israel in the surveying of them, and they shall give every one a ransom for his soul to the Lord, then there shall not be among them a [fn]destruction in the visiting of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:31 - And ye shall not accept ransoms for life from a murderer who is worthy of death, for he shall be surely put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32 - Ye shall not accept a ransom to excuse his fleeing to the city of refuge, so that he should again dwell in the land, until the death of the high-priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18 - And the golden mice according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines, belonging to the five lords, from the fenced city to the village of the Pherezite, and to the great stone, on which they placed the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that was in the field of Osee the Bæthsamysite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:3 - Behold, here am I, answer against me before the Lord and before his anointed: whose calf have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom of you have I oppressed? or whom have I been violent with? or from whose hand have I taken a [fn]bribe, even to a sandal? bear witness against me, and I will make restitution to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:24 - he will support him, that he should not perish, and will restore his body as fresh plaster upon a wall; and he will fill his bones with marrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:18 - but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:7 - (LXX 48:8) A brother does not redeem, shall a man redeem? he shall not give to God a ransom for himself,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:35 - He will not forego his enmity for any ransom: neither will he be reconciled for many gifts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:8 - A man's own wealth is the ransom of his life: but the poor [fn]endures not threatening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:18 - and a transgressor is the [fn]abomination of a righteous man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:14 - My kinsman is to me a cluster of camphor in the vineyards of Engaddi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:13 - Thy shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; camphor, with spikenard:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:3 - For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, that saves thee: I have made Egypt and Ethiopia thy ransom, and given Soene for thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:12 - For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside the judgment of the poor in the gates.
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