Strong's Hebrew · H3730
H3730 kaphtôr
כַּפְתֹּר
kaf-tore'
capital
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kaphtôr appears 18 times in Scripture, including Exodus 25:31 and Exodus 25:33. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a chaplet; but used only in an architectonic sense, i.e. the capital of a column, or a wreath-like button or disk on the candelabrum
In the King James Version
knop, (upper) lintel.
Derivation
or (Amos 9:1) כַּפְתּוֹר; probably from an unused root meaning to encircle;
Appears 18 times in Scripture
“And on the lampstand were four cups shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.”
“There were three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the first branch, each with buds and petals, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches that extended from the lampstand.”
“The buds and branches were all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.”
“Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.”
“A bud was under the first pair of branches that extended from the lampstand, a bud under the second pair, and a bud under the third pair.”
“There are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the first branch, each with buds and petals, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches that extend from the lampstand.”
“Then he made the lampstand out of pure hammered gold, all of one piece: its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
