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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 Box Gen 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:14 - Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. H3724

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:30 - If there be laid on him a sum of money, H3724 then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:12 - When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom H3724 for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:31 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction H3724 for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32 - And ye shall take no satisfaction H3724 for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 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, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, H3724 even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:3 - Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe H3724 to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:24 - Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. H3724

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:18 - Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom H3724 cannot deliver thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 49:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:7 - None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom H3724 for him:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:35 - He will not regard any ransom; H3724 neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:8 - The ransom H3724 of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:18 - The wicked shall be a ransom H3724 for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:14 - My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire H3724 in the vineyards of Engedi.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:13 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, H3724 with spikenard,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:3 - For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, H3724 Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:12 - For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, H3724 and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
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