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Hebrew verb · H3722

כָּפַר

kapharkaw-far'

to atone; to cover

102 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: kâphar

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3722is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 16 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 47
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3722

to cover (specifically with bitumen); figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel

The King James renders it: appease, make (an atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon, purge (away), put off, (make) reconcile(-liation).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

kaphar is rendered "to atone; to cover". It stands 102 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.

  • Forty-nine of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to atone".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 6:14Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
  • The Greek text spells it forty-seven different ways.

The first use

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Genesis 6:14וְכָֽפַרְתָּ֥

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Forty-nine of the word's 102 uses are in Leviticus.

The other 23 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: to atone, and to cover.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to atoneStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereGenesis 6:14Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside…
to coverStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he will make atonement29
  • to make atonement25
  • he will make atonement6
  • it will be atoned for4
  • and he made atonement3
  • and make atonement3
  • and he will make atonement for2
  • and to make atonement2
  • and atone1
  • and he has made atonement1
  • and it will be annulled1
  • and it will be atoned for1

and 24 more, 102 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

כָּפַלkaphalto doubleUses5
כָּפַףkaphaphto bendUses5
כָּפָרkapharChepharUses3
כָּפָןkaphanfamineUses2
כָּפָהkaphahto subdueUses1
כָּפַןkaphanto hungerUses1
כָּפִיסkaphisrafterUses1
כָּפַשׁkaphashto cowerUses1

All 102, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

47 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וְכִפֶּ֥ר10
  • לְכַפֵּ֖ר10
  • לְכַפֵּ֥ר9
  • וְכִפֶּ֨ר7
  • וְכִפֶּ֣ר6
  • לְכַפֵּ֣ר5
  • יְכַפֵּ֥ר4
  • וְכִפֶּר֩3
  • וַיְכַפֵּ֖ר2
  • וְכִפֶּ֤ר2
  • וְכִפֶּ֧ר2
  • וְכַפֵּ֥ר2

and 35 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vpq3ms33Hc/Vpq3ms
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)26HR/Vpcc
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular14HVpi3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular4HC/Vpv2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)3HC/R/Vpcc
  • Hc/Vpw3ms3Hc/Vpw3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular2HVpc1cs
  • Hc/VDq3ms1Hc/VDq3ms
  • Hc/Vpq2mp1Hc/Vpq2mp
  • Hc/Vpq2ms/Sp3ms1Hc/Vpq2ms/Sp3ms
  • Hc/Vqq2ms1Hc/Vqq2ms
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Vpcc/Sp1bs

Genesis

two uses
  • Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.

    Genesis 6:14

    • וְכָֽפַרְתָּ֥vekhafartaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will cover
  • You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”

    Genesis 32:20

    • אֲכַפְּרָ֣הʾakhaperahverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will cover

Exodus

eight uses
  • They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.

    Exodus 29:33

    • כֻּפַּ֣רkuparverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was atoned
  • Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.

    Exodus 29:36

    • בְּכַפֶּרְךָ֖bekhaperkhapreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: when making atonement you
  • For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.

    Exodus 29:37

    • תְּכַפֵּר֙tekhaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will make atonement
  • Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar is most holy to the LORD.”

    Exodus 30:10

    • וְכִפֶּ֤רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
    • יְכַפֵּ֤רyekhaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make atonement
  • In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.

    Exodus 30:15

    • לְכַפֵּ֖רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • Take the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will serve as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD to make atonement for your lives.”

    Exodus 30:16

    • לְכַפֵּ֖רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

    Exodus 32:30

    • אֲכַפְּרָ֖הʾakhaperahverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will atone

Leviticus

forty-nine uses
  • He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

    Leviticus 1:4

    • לְכַפֵּ֥רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • He shall offer this bull just as he did the bull for the sin offering; in this way the priest will make atonement on their behalf, and they will be forgiven.

    Leviticus 4:20

    • וְכִפֶּ֧רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • He must burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the peace offerings; thus the priest will make atonement for that man’s sin, and he will be forgiven.

    Leviticus 4:26

    • וְכִפֶּ֨רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • Then he is to remove all the fat, just as it is removed from the peace offering, and the priest is to burn it on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

    Leviticus 4:31

    • וְכִפֶּ֥רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • And he shall remove all the fat, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the peace offerings, and he shall burn it on the altar along with the offerings made by fire to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.

    Leviticus 4:35

    • וְכִפֶּ֨רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • and he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin.

    Leviticus 5:6

    • וְכִפֶּ֥רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • And the priest must prepare the second bird as a burnt offering according to the ordinance. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.

    Leviticus 5:10

    • וְכִפֶּ֨רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • In this way the priest will make atonement for him for any of these sins he has committed, and he will be forgiven. The remainder will belong to the priest, like the grain offering.”

    Leviticus 5:13

    • וְכִפֶּר֩vekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • Regarding any holy thing he has harmed, he must make restitution by adding a fifth of its value to it and giving it to the priest, who will make atonement on his behalf with the ram as a guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.

    Leviticus 5:16

    • יְכַפֵּ֥רyekhaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make atonement
  • He is to bring to the priest an unblemished ram of proper value from the flock as a guilt offering. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the wrong he has committed in ignorance, and he will be forgiven.

    Leviticus 5:18

    • וְכִפֶּר֩vekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for anything he may have done to incur guilt.”

    Leviticus 6:7

    • וְכִפֶּ֨רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it must be burned.

    Leviticus 6:30

    • לְכַפֵּ֥רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.

    Leviticus 7:7

    • יְכַפֶּר־yekhaper-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make atonement
  • Moses slaughtered the bull, took some of the blood, and applied it with his finger to all four horns of the altar, purifying the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it so that atonement could be made on it.

    Leviticus 8:15

    • לְכַפֵּ֥רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • What has been done today has been commanded by the LORD in order to make atonement on your behalf.

    Leviticus 8:34

    • לְכַפֵּ֥רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • Then Moses said to Aaron, “Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering to make atonement for yourself and for the people. And sacrifice the people’s offering to make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded.”

    Leviticus 9:7

    • וְכַפֵּ֥רvekhaperconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and make atonement
    • וְכַפֵּ֣רvekhaperconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and make atonement
  • “Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the congregation by making atonement for them before the LORD.

    Leviticus 10:17

    • לְכַפֵּ֥רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • And the priest will present them before the LORD and make atonement for her; and she shall be ceremonially cleansed from her flow of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or to a female.

    Leviticus 12:7

    • וְכִפֶּ֣רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • But if she cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”

    Leviticus 12:8

    • וְכִפֶּ֥רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • The rest of the oil in his palm, the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.

    Leviticus 14:18

    • וְכִפֶּ֥רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • Then the priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. After that, the priest shall slaughter the burnt offering

    Leviticus 14:19

    • וְכִפֶּ֕רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • and offer it on the altar, with the grain offering, to make atonement for him, and he will be clean.

    Leviticus 14:20

    • וְכִפֶּ֥רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • If, however, the person is poor and cannot afford these offerings, he is to take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,

    Leviticus 14:21

    • לְכַפֵּ֣רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • The rest of the oil in his palm, the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.

    Leviticus 14:29

    • לְכַפֵּ֥רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the one to be cleansed.

    Leviticus 14:31

    • וְכִפֶּ֧רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • Finally, he is to release the live bird into the open fields outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.

    Leviticus 14:53

    • וְכִפֶּ֥רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • The priest is to sacrifice them, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for the man before the LORD because of his discharge.

    Leviticus 15:15

    • וְכִפֶּ֨רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • The priest is to sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge.

    Leviticus 15:30

    • וְכִפֶּ֨רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • Aaron is to present the bull for his sin offering and make atonement for himself and his household.

    Leviticus 16:6

    • וְכִפֶּ֥רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement by sending it into the wilderness as the scapegoat.

    Leviticus 16:10

    • לְכַפֵּ֣רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • When Aaron presents the bull for his sin offering and makes atonement for himself and his household, he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.

    Leviticus 16:11

    • וְכִפֶּ֥רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • So he shall make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the impurities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to do the same for the Tent of Meeting which abides among them, because it is surrounded by their impurities.

    Leviticus 16:16

    • וְכִפֶּ֣רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • No one may be in the Tent of Meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he leaves, after he has made atonement for himself, his household, and the whole assembly of Israel.

    Leviticus 16:17

    • לְכַפֵּ֥רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
    • וְכִפֶּ֤רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he has made atonement
  • Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He is to take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on all the horns of the altar.

    Leviticus 16:18

    • וְכִפֶּ֣רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • When Aaron has finished purifying the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he is to bring forward the live goat.

    Leviticus 16:20

    • מִכַּפֵּ֣רmikaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from making atonement for
  • He is to bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his own clothes. Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering to make atonement for himself and for the people.

    Leviticus 16:24

    • וְכִפֶּ֥רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up.

    Leviticus 16:27

    • לְכַפֵּ֣רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • because on this day atonement will be made for you to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the LORD.

    Leviticus 16:30

    • יְכַפֵּ֥רyekhaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make atonement
  • The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest shall make atonement. He will put on the sacred linen garments

    Leviticus 16:32

    • וְכִפֶּ֨רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • and make atonement for the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, and for the priests and all the people of the assembly.

    Leviticus 16:33

    • וְכִפֶּר֙vekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement for
    • יְכַפֵּ֑רyekhaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make atonement for
    • יְכַפֵּֽר׃yekhaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make atonement
  • This is to be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement once a year for the Israelites because of all their sins.” And all this was done as the LORD had commanded Moses.

    Leviticus 16:34

    • לְכַפֵּ֞רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.

    Leviticus 17:11

    • לְכַפֵּ֖רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
    • יְכַפֵּֽר׃yekhaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it makes atonement
  • The priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the LORD with the ram of the guilt offering for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven the sin he has committed.

    Leviticus 19:22

    • וְכִפֶּר֩vekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 23:28

    • לְכַפֵּ֣רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement

Numbers

sixteen uses
  • But if the man has no relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest along with the ram of atonement, by which the atonement is made for him.

    Numbers 5:8

    • יְכַפֶּר־yekhaper-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make atonement
  • And the priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement for him, because he has sinned by being in the presence of the dead body. On that day he must consecrate his head again.

    Numbers 6:11

    • וְכִפֶּ֣רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • And the Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and offer to the LORD one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, to make atonement for the Levites.

    Numbers 8:12

    • לְכַפֵּ֖רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to perform the service for the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting and to make atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the Israelites when they approach the sanctuary.”

    Numbers 8:19

    • וּלְכַפֵּ֖רulekhaperconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to make atonement
  • The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes, and Aaron presented them as a wave offering before the LORD. Aaron also made atonement for them to cleanse them.

    Numbers 8:21

    • וַיְכַפֵּ֧רvaykhaperHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he made atonement
  • The priest is to make atonement for the whole congregation of Israel, so that they may be forgiven; for the sin was unintentional and they have brought to the LORD an offering made by fire and a sin offering, presented before the LORD for their unintentional sin.

    Numbers 15:25

    • וְכִפֶּ֣רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
  • And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the person who erred by sinning unintentionally; and when atonement has been made for him, he will be forgiven.

    Numbers 15:28

    • וְכִפֶּ֣רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement
    • לְכַפֵּ֥רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”

    Numbers 16:46

    • וְכַפֵּ֣רvekhaperconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and make atonement
  • So Aaron took the censer as Moses had ordered and ran into the midst of the assembly. And seeing that the plague had begun among the people, he offered the incense and made atonement for the people.

    Numbers 16:47

    • וַיְכַפֵּ֖רvaykhaperHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he made atonement
  • It will be a covenant of permanent priesthood for him and his descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”

    Numbers 25:13

    • וַיְכַפֵּ֖רvaykhaperHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he made atonement
  • Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.

    Numbers 28:22

    • לְכַפֵּ֖רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • Include one male goat to make atonement for you.

    Numbers 28:30

    • לְכַפֵּ֖רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.

    Numbers 29:5

    • לְכַפֵּ֖רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”

    Numbers 31:50

    • לְכַפֵּ֥רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

    Numbers 35:33

    • יְכֻפַּ֗רyekhuparverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be atoned

Deuteronomy

three uses
  • Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.

    Deuteronomy 21:8

    • כַּפֵּר֩kaperverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: make atonement
    • וְנִכַּפֵּ֥רvenikkaperHc/VDq3mstagged: and it will be atoned for
  • Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.

    Deuteronomy 32:43

    • וְכִפֶּ֥רvekhiperHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make atonement for

1 Samuel

one use
  • Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, ‘The iniquity of Eli’s house shall never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.’”

    1 Samuel 3:14

    • יִתְכַּפֵּ֞רyitkaperverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be atoned for

2 Samuel

one use
  • So David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How can I make amends so that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?”

    2 Samuel 21:3

    • אֲכַפֵּ֔רʾakhaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: will I make amends

1 Chronicles

one use
  • But Aaron and his sons did all the work of the Most Holy Place. They presented the offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

    1 Chronicles 6:49

    • וּלְכַפֵּר֙ulekhaperconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to make atonement

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • And the priests slaughtered the goats and put their blood on the altar for a sin offering, to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.

    2 Chronicles 29:24

    • לְכַפֵּ֖רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • A large number of the people—many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun—had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah interceded for them, saying, “May the LORD, who is good, provide atonement for everyone

    2 Chronicles 30:18

    • יְכַפֵּ֥רyekhaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: may he make atonement

Nehemiah

one use
  • for the showbread, for the regular grain offerings and burnt offerings, for the Sabbath offerings, for the New Moons and appointed feasts, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the duties of the house of our God.

    Nehemiah 10:33

    • לְכַפֵּ֖רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement

Psalms

three uses
  • When iniquities prevail against me, You atone for our transgressions.

    Psalms 65:3

    • תְכַפְּרֵֽם׃tekhaperemverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you atone for them
  • And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

    Psalms 78:38

    • יְכַפֵּ֥רyekhaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he atoned for
  • Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.

    Psalms 79:9

    • וְכַפֵּ֥רvekhaperconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and atone

Proverbs

two uses
  • By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.

    Proverbs 16:6

    • יְכֻפַּ֣רyekhuparverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is atoned for
  • The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

    Proverbs 16:14

    • יְכַפְּרֶֽנָּה׃yekhapperenahverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he covers it

Isaiah

five uses
  • And with it he touched my mouth and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for.”

    Isaiah 6:7

    • תְּכֻפָּֽר׃tekhuparverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be atoned for
  • The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: “Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” says the Lord GOD of Hosts.

    Isaiah 22:14

    • יְ֠כֻפַּרyekhuparverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be atoned for
  • Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

    Isaiah 27:9

    • יְכֻפַּ֣רyekhuparverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be atoned for
  • Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.

    Isaiah 28:18

    • וְכֻפַּ֤רvekhuparHc/VPq3mstagged: and it will be annulled
  • But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.

    Isaiah 47:11

    • כַּפְּרָ֑הּkaperahverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to cover it

Jeremiah

one use
  • But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

    Jeremiah 18:23

    • תְּכַפֵּר֙tekhaperverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you atone

Ezekiel

six uses
  • so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.”

    Ezekiel 16:63

    • בְּכַפְּרִי־bekhaperi-preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: when make atonement I
  • You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim; thus you will cleanse the altar and make atonement for it.

    Ezekiel 43:20

    • וְכִפַּרְתָּֽהוּ׃vekhipartahuHc/Vpq2ms/Sp3mstagged: and you will make atonement for it
  • For seven days the priests are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so they shall consecrate it.

    Ezekiel 43:26

    • יְכַפְּרוּ֙yekhaperuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will make atonement for
  • And one sheep shall be given from each flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the people, declares the Lord GOD.

    Ezekiel 45:15

    • לְכַפֵּ֣רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.

    Ezekiel 45:17

    • לְכַפֵּ֖רlekhaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make atonement
  • You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for anyone who strays unintentionally or in ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple.

    Ezekiel 45:20

    • וְכִפַּרְתֶּ֖םvekhipartemHc/Vpq2mptagged: and you will make atonement for

Daniel

one use
  • Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

    Daniel 9:24

    • וּלְכַפֵּ֣רulekhaperconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to atone for

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Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

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The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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