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# כָּפָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3723

**village** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

village [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3723/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּפָר: n.m. village [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3723/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. village (√ dub.; NH כָּפָר; Aramaic כַּפְרָנָא; Syriac ܟܰܦܪܳܐ, ܟܰܦܪܽܘܢܳܐ; Assyrian kapru DlHWB 348);—sg. cstr. כְּפַר הָעַמּוֹנִי Jos 18:24 Kt village of the Ammonites, or כ׳ הָעַמּוֹנָה Qri, a village of Benjamin, possibly Kefr ’Ânaʾ, 3 miles N. of Bethel Surv ii.299; pl. כְּפָרִים Ct 7:12 1 Ch 27:25.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 27:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.25/#tree)

וְעַל֙ אֹצְר֣וֹת הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ עַזְמָ֖וֶת בֶּן־עֲדִיאֵ֑לס וְעַ֣ל הָֽאֹצָר֡וֹת בַּשָּׂדֶ֞ה בֶּעָרִ֤ים וּבַכְּפָרִים֙ וּבַמִּגְדָּל֔וֹת יְהוֹנָתָ֖ן בֶּן־עֻזִּיָּֽהוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] over the.storehouses of the.king Azmaveth the.son of.Adiel and.\[was\] over the storehouses in the.open country in the cities and in the villages and in the towers Jonathan the.son of.Uzziah

*JPS 1917:* And over the king's treasuries was Azmaveth the son of Adiel; and over the treasuries in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3723.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3723/): 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).