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title: כְּפִירָה — Chephirah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּפִירָה (3716), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Chephirah. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּפִירָה

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«כְּפִירָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Chephirah** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 3716 · **BDB:** כְּפִירָה

### Glosses

Kephirah (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Chephirah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3716/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3716/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city of the Hivites subsequently assigned to Benjamin., Jos 9:17; 18:26 Ezr 2:25 = Ne 7:29; 𝔊 Κεφειρα, etc.; = mod. Kefîreh RobBR iii, 146 GuérinJud. i. 283 ff. Mem.iii. 36 BuhlG. § 94, p. 169.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּפִירָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3716/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 18:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.26/)

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וְהַמִּצְפֶּ֥ה וְהַכְּפִירָ֖ה וְהַמֹּצָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (the) Mizpah and (the) Kephirah and (the) Mozah

*JPS 1917:* and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah;

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[Nehemiah 7:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.29/)

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אַנְשֵׁ֨י קִרְיַ֤ת יְעָרִים֙ קִרְיַ֤ת יְעָרִים֙ כְּפִירָ֣ה וּבְאֵר֔וֹת שְׁבַ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.men of Kiriath.Jearim Kephirah and Beeroth seven hundred(s) forty and three

*JPS 1917:* The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.

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