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# כְּפוֹר

Biblical Hebrew

**hoar frost** — used 3 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

hoar frost [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e4_5d5_5b9_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּפוֹר²: n.m. hoar frost [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e4_5d5_5b9_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. hoar frost (NH id.)—כ׳ ψ 147:16; כְּפֹר Ex 16:14 (P), Jb 38:29.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hoar-frost (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 147:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.147.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.147.16/#tree)

הַנֹּתֵ֣ן שֶׁ֣לֶג כַּצָּ֑מֶר כְּ֝פ֗וֹר כָּאֵ֥פֶר יְפַזֵּֽר׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one who\].gives snow like (the) wool hoar-frost like (the) ash\[es\] he.scatters

*JPS 1917:* He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.

[Job 38:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.29/#tree)

מִבֶּ֣טֶן מִ֭י יָצָ֣א הַקָּ֑רַח וּכְפֹ֥ר שָׁ֝מַיִם מִ֣י יְלָדֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* from the.womb of.whom? does.it.come.forth the ice and.\[the\] hoar-frost of.heaven who? does he.give.birth.to.it

*JPS 1917:* Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoar-frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e4_5d5_5b9_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e4_5d5_5b9_5e8/): 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).