1. כָּפַר
and thou shalt pitch it with pitch
The corpus record — Hebrew
וְכָֽפַרְתָּ֥
kaphar · vb. denom
and thou shalt pitch it with pitch
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 103 · 3.36/10k
Senses
2. כִּפֶּר
cover over, pacify, make propitiation
3. כָּפַר
to cover (specifically with bitumen); figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel
Attestations
- וְ/כָֽפַרְתָּ֥ Genesis 6:14 (BHS)
- אֲכַפְּרָ֣ה Genesis 32:21 (BHS)
- כֻּפַּ֣ר Exodus 29:33 (BHS)
- בְּ/כַפֶּרְ/ךָ֖ Exodus 29:36 (BHS)
- תְּכַפֵּר֙ Exodus 29:37 (BHS)
- וְ/כִפֶּ֤ר Exodus 30:10 (BHS)
6 of 103 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.