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# כִּפֻּרִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3725

**atonement** — used 8 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

atonement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3725/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּפֻּרִים: n.pl.abstr. atonement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3725/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pl.abstr. atonement, only in P: הַטַּאת הַכּ׳ sin-offering of the atonement Ex 30:10; Nu 29:11; יוֹם (ה)כ׳ day of (the) atonement Lv 23:27, 28; 25:9; אֵיל הַכּ׳ Nu 5:8; עַל־הַכּ׳ Ex 29:36; כֶּסֶף הכ׳ Ex 30:16 money of atonement.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: atonement(s) (7); of atonement(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 29:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.29.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.29.11/#tree)

שְׂעִיר־עִזִּ֥ים אֶחָ֖ד חַטָּ֑את מִלְּבַ֞ד חַטַּ֤את הַכִּפֻּרִים֙ וְעֹלַ֣ת הַתָּמִ֔יד וּמִנְחָתָ֖הּ וְנִסְכֵּיהֶֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* a.male.goat of.goats one a.sin.offering (from) besides the.sin.offering of.(the) atonement(s) and the.burnt.offering of.(the) continuity and its.grain offering and their.drink offerings

*JPS 1917:* one he-goat for a sin-offering; beside the sin-offering of atonement, and the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and their drink-offerings.

[Leviticus 23:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.23.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.23.28/#tree)

וְכָל־מְלָאכָה֙ לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֔וּ בְּעֶ֖צֶם הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה כִּ֣י י֤וֹם כִּפֻּרִים֙ ה֔וּא לְכַפֵּ֣ר עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם לִפְנֵ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and any work not you.will.do on the.substance of the.day (the) this (dm) \[is\].a.day of.atonement(s) it to make.atonement on yourselves before Yahweh God your

*JPS 1917:* And ye shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3725.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3725/): 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).