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title: כְּפוֹר — bowl · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּפוֹר (3713), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: bowl. BDB 1906: n.m. bowl. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּפוֹר

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«כְּפוֹר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bowl** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 3713 · **BDB:** כְּפוֹר

### Glosses

a.bowl (4); bowls (3); the.bowls (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּפוֹר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3713/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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