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title: כִּיֹּור — pot · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כִּיֹּור (3595), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 23 times: pot. BDB 1906: n.m. pot, basin. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כִּיֹּור

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«כִּיֹּור» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pot** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 23 times · **Key:** 3595 · **BDB:** כִּיֹּר

### Glosses

laver (13); lavers (5); a.laver (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pot [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3595/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. pot, basin [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3595/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 K 7:38 pot, basin (NH כִּיּוֹר wash-basin, so Aramaic כִּיּוֹרָא)—abs. כִּיֹּר 1 K 7:30 + 8 times; כִּיּוֹר 1 S 2:14 + 5 times; cstr. כִּיּוֹר Ex 30:18 + 2 times; pl. abs. כִּיֹּרוֹת 1 K 7:40 (but v. infr.), 2 Ch 4:14; כִּיֹּרֹת 1 K 7:43; כִּיּוֹרִים 2 Ch 4:6; cstr. כִּיֹּרוֹת 1 K 7:38;— pot for cooking 1 S 2:14 (‖ דּוּד, קַלַּחַת, פָּרוּר). fire-pot כִּיּוֹר אֵשׁ Zc 12:6 (‖ לַפִּיד אֵשׁ; fig. of chiefs of Judah). basin of bronze for washing laver; set on a bronze support before tabernacle Ex 30:18, 28; 31:9; 35:16; 38:8; 39:39; 40:7, 11, 30 Lv 8:11 (all P). 10 in number, 5 at front corners of temple 1 K 7:30, 38(×3), 43 2 K 16:17 2 Ch 4:14, 2 Ch 4:6 (1 K 7:40 read הַסִּירוֹת as v 45 and ‖ 2 Ch 4:11, 16, so Heb. Codd. 𝔊 𝔙 Th Ke Sta Klo al.) platform or stage of bronze (prob. round, bowl-like in shape) on which, according to Chr, solomon stood and kneeled 2 Ch 6:13.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כִּיֹּור» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3595/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 40:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.40.11/)

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וּמָשַׁחְתָּ֥ אֶת־הַכִּיֹּ֖ר וְאֶת־כַּנּ֑וֹ וְקִדַּשְׁתָּ֖ אֹתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.anoint (et) the laver and (et) base its and you.will.consecrate it

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it.

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[1 Kings 7:43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.43/)

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וְאֶת־הַמְּכֹנ֖וֹת עָ֑שֶׂר וְאֶת־הַכִּיֹּרֹ֥ת עֲשָׂרָ֖ה עַל־הַמְּכֹנֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the stands ten and (et) the lavers ten on the stands

*JPS 1917:* and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases;

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