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Strong’s H3724 · Hebrew

כֹּפֶר

kôpher · ko'-fer

Origin from כָּפַר (H3722);

Meaning properly, a cover, i.e. (literally) a village (as covered in); (specifically) bitumen (as used for coating), and the henna plant (as used for dyeing); figuratively, a redemption-price

In the King James Version bribe, camphire, pitch, ransom, satisfaction, sum of money, village.

In 17 verses of the King James Version

  1. Genesis 6:14Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
  2. Exodus 21:30If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
  3. Exodus 30:12When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
  4. Numbers 35:31Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
  5. Numbers 35:32And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
  6. 1 Samuel 6:18And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
  7. 1 Samuel 12:3Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
  8. Job 33:24Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
  9. Job 36:18Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
  10. Psalms 49:7None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
  11. Proverbs 6:35He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
  12. Proverbs 13:8The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
  13. Proverbs 21:18The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
  14. Song of Songs 1:14My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
  15. Song of Songs 4:13Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
  16. Isaiah 43:3For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
  17. Amos 5:12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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