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# כִּיֹּור

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3595

**pot** — used 23 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3595/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּיֹּר: n.m. pot, basin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3595/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 K 7:38 pot, basin (NH כִּיּוֹר wash-basin, so Aramaic כִּיּוֹרָא)—abs. כִּיֹּר 1 K 7:30 + 8 times; כִּיּוֹר 1 S 2:14 + 5 times; cstr. כִּיּוֹר Ex 30:18 + 2 times; pl. abs. כִּיֹּרוֹת 1 K 7:40 (but v. infr.), 2 Ch 4:14; כִּיֹּרֹת 1 K 7:43; כִּיּוֹרִים 2 Ch 4:6; cstr. כִּיֹּרוֹת 1 K 7:38;— pot for cooking 1 S 2:14 (‖ דּוּד, קַלַּחַת, פָּרוּר). fire-pot כִּיּוֹר אֵשׁ Zc 12:6 (‖ לַפִּיד אֵשׁ; fig. of chiefs of Judah). basin of bronze for washing laver; set on a bronze support before tabernacle Ex 30:18, 28; 31:9; 35:16; 38:8; 39:39; 40:7, 11, 30 Lv 8:11 (all P). 10 in number, 5 at front corners of temple 1 K 7:30, 38(×3), 43 2 K 16:17 2 Ch 4:14, 2 Ch 4:6 (1 K 7:40 read הַסִּירוֹת as v 45 and ‖ 2 Ch 4:11, 16, so Heb. Codd. 𝔊 𝔙 Th Ke Sta Klo al.) platform or stage of bronze (prob. round, bowl-like in shape) on which, according to Chr, solomon stood and kneeled 2 Ch 6:13.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: laver (13); lavers (5); a laver (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 40:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.40.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.40.11/#tree)

וּמָשַׁחְתָּ֥ אֶת־הַכִּיֹּ֖ר וְאֶת־כַּנּ֑וֹ וְקִדַּשְׁתָּ֖ אֹתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.anoint (et) the laver and (et) base its and you.will.consecrate it

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it.

[1 Kings 7:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.43/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַמְּכֹנ֖וֹת עָ֑שֶׂר וְאֶת־הַכִּיֹּרֹ֥ת עֲשָׂרָ֖ה עַל־הַמְּכֹנֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the stands ten and (et) the lavers ten on the stands

*JPS 1917:* and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3595.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3595/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).