כִּיּוֹר
kîyôwr · kee-yore'
properly, something round (as excavated or bored), i.e. a chafing-dish forcoals or a caldron forcooking; hence (from similarity of form) a washbowl; also (for the same reason) a pulpit or platform
Lexicon
Derivation: or כִּיֹּר; from the same as H3564 (כּוּר);
properly, something round (as excavated or bored), i.e. a chafing-dish forcoals or a caldron forcooking; hence (from similarity of form) a washbowl; also (for the same reason) a pulpit or platform
- properly, something round (as excavated or bored), i.e. a chafing-dish forcoals or a caldron forcooking
- hence, (from similarity of form) a washbowl
- also, (for the same reason) a pulpit or platform
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: hearth, laver, pan, scaffold.
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › the hand that works › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
The open hand that covers of the hand that works that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כִּיּוֹר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
23 occurrences · 23 OT · 0 NT · 16 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the laver7 · 30%
- lavers3 · 13%
- laver3 · 13%
- and the laver2 · 9%
- a laver1 · 4%
- both the laver1 · 4%
- it into the pan1 · 4%
- under the laver1 · 4%
- the lavers1 · 4%
- and lavers1 · 4%
- scaffold1 · 4%
- like an hearth1 · 4%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.