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# כְּפוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3713

**bowl** — used 9 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

bowl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3713/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּפוֹר: n.m. bowl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3713/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. bowl (NH id.; 𝔗 כְּפוֹרָא)—bowl of gold or silver, used in the temple (late), כ׳ 1 Ch 28:17(×4); pl. cstr. כְּפוֹרֵי 1 Ch 28:17(×2) Ezr 1:10(×2); 8:27.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a bowl (4); bowls (3); the bowls (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 1:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.1.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.1.10/#tree)

כְּפוֹרֵ֤י זָהָב֙ שְׁלֹשִׁ֔ים כְּפ֤וֹרֵי כֶ֙סֶף֙ מִשְׁנִ֔ים אַרְבַּ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת וַעֲשָׂרָ֑ה כֵּלִ֥ים אֲחֵרִ֖ים אָֽלֶף׃ס

*Word for word:* bowls of.gold thirty bowls of.silver second.order four hundred(s) and ten vessels other one.thousand

*JPS 1917:* thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.

[Ezra 8:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.27/#tree)

וּכְפֹרֵ֤י זָהָב֙ עֶשְׂרִ֔ים לַאֲדַרְכֹנִ֖ים אָ֑לֶף וּכְלֵ֨י נְחֹ֜שֶׁת מֻצְהָ֤ב טוֹבָה֙ שְׁנַ֔יִם חֲמוּדֹ֖ת כַּזָּהָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and bowls of.gold twenty of darics a.thousand and vessels of.bronze gleaming fine two precious.things like (the) gold

*JPS 1917:* and twenty bowels of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3713.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3713/): 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).