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title: כְּפוֹר — hoar frost · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּפוֹר (lemma:כְּפוֹר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: hoar frost. BDB 1906: n.m. hoar frost. 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: **hoar frost** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** lemma:כְּפוֹר · **BDB:** כְּפוֹר²

### Glosses

hoar-frost (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hoar frost [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e4_5d5_5b9_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. hoar frost [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e4_5d5_5b9_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. hoar frost (NH id.)—כ׳ ψ 147:16; כְּפֹר Ex 16:14 (P), Jb 38:29.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 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/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e4_5d5_5b9_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 147:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.147.16/)

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הַנֹּתֵ֣ן שֶׁ֣לֶג כַּצָּ֑מֶר כְּ֝פ֗וֹר כָּאֵ֥פֶר יְפַזֵּֽר׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one who\].gives snow like (the) wool hoar-frost like (the) ash\[es\] he.scatters

*JPS 1917:* He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.

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[Job 38:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.29/)

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מִבֶּ֣טֶן מִ֭י יָצָ֣א הַקָּ֑רַח וּכְפֹ֥ר שָׁ֝מַיִם מִ֣י יְלָדֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* from the.womb of.whom? does.it.come.forth the ice and.\[the\] hoar-frost of.heaven who? does he.give.birth.to.it

*JPS 1917:* Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoar-frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

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