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title: כַּפְתּוֹר — capital · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כַּפְתּוֹר (3730), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 18 times: capital. BDB 1906: n.m. capital knob, bulb. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כַּפְתּוֹר

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«כַּפְתּוֹר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **capital** — 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:** 18 times · **Key:** 3730 · **BDB:** כַּפְתּוֹר

### Glosses

a.bulb (10); bulbs (6); capital (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

capital [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3730/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. capital knob, bulb [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3730/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1. capital, 2. knob, bulb (2. perhaps earlier meaning; HoffmZAW iii. (1883), 124, comp. Syriac ܟܡܬܪܐ pear (LöwNo. 153), from shape);— כַּפְתּוֹר Am 9:1 capital of pillar; so pl. sf. כַּפְתֹּרֶיהָ Zp 2:14. כַּפְתֹּר, knob or bulb, ornament on the golden lamp-stand in tabernacle; 𝔊 σφαιρωτήρ, Jos Archaeology iii. 6, 7 ῥοΐσκος, small pomegranate; 𝔙 sphaerula:—Ex 25:33(×2), 35(×3) = 37:19(×2), 21(×3); sf. כַּפְתֹּרֶיהָ 25:31, 34 = 37:17, 20, כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶם 25:36 = 37:22 (all P).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כַּפְתּוֹר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3730/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 25:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.34/)

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וּבַמְּנֹרָ֖ה אַרְבָּעָ֣ה גְבִעִ֑ים מְשֻׁקָּדִ֔ים כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ וּפְרָחֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and \[will be\] on.the.lampstand four cups shaped.like.almond.blossoms bulbs its and blossoms its

*JPS 1917:* And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof.

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[Exodus 37:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.37.20/)

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וּבַמְּנֹרָ֖ה אַרְבָּעָ֣ה גְבִעִ֑ים מְשֻׁ֨קָּדִ֔ים כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ וּפְרָחֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] on the lampstand four cups shaped.like.almond.blossoms bulbs its and blossoms its

*JPS 1917:* And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;

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