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title: כָּפָר — village · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּפָר (lemma:כָּפָר), 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:** lemma:כָּפָר · **BDB:** כָּפָר

### Glosses

villages (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

village [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b8_5bc_5e4_5b8_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. village [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b8_5bc_5e4_5b8_5e8/#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 (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/lemma_3a_5db_5b8_5bc_5e4_5b8_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 7:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.12/)

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לְכָ֤ה דוֹדִי֙ נֵצֵ֣א הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה נָלִ֖ינָה בַּכְּפָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* come my.lover my let.us.go the field let.us.pass.the.night in the villages

*JPS 1917:* Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

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