כַּפֹּרֶת
kappôreth · kap-po'-reth
a lid (used only of the cover of the sacred Ark)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3722 (כָּפַר);
a lid (used only of the cover of the sacred Ark)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: mercy seat.
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › to speak, the word › the head, the highest › the mark, the covenant sign
The open hand that covers that works to speak, the word of the head, the highest of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כַּפֹּרֶת 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
27 occurrences · 27 OT · 0 NT · 10 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the mercy seat10 · 37%
- of the mercy seat3 · 11%
- a mercy seat1 · 4%
- even of the mercy seat1 · 4%
- toward the mercy seat1 · 4%
- with thee from above the mercy seat1 · 4%
- and the mercy seat1 · 4%
- thereof, with the mercy seat1 · 4%
- on that side: out of the mercy seat1 · 4%
- over the mercy seat1 · 4%
- even to the mercy seatward1 · 4%
- thereof, and the mercy seat1 · 4%
- upon the mercy1 · 4%
- upon the mercy seat1 · 4%
- it upon the mercy seat1 · 4%
- unto him from off the mercy seat1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
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.