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title: כָּפָר — village · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּפָר (3723), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: village. BDB 1906: n.m. village. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּפָר

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«כָּפָר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **village** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3723 · **BDB:** כָּפָר

### Glosses

villages (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּפָר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3723/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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;

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