Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3727
כַּפֹּרֶת
kapporethkap-po'-reth
mercy seat
27 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kappôreth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3727is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3727
a lid (used only of the cover of the sacred Ark)
The King James renders it: mercy seat.
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
kapporeth is rendered "mercy seat". It stands 27 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Eighteen of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 25:17And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
Exodus 25:17כַפֹּ֖רֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eighteen of the word's twenty-seven uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the atonement cover25
- an atonement cover1
- an atonement cover of1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כַּפְתֹּר | kaphtor | capital | Uses18 |
| כַּפְתֹּרִי | Kaphtori | Caphtorim | Uses3 |
The words it stands beside
All 27, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- הַכַּפֹּֽרֶת׃6
- הַכַּפֹּ֛רֶת5
- הַכַּפֹּ֔רֶת5
- הַכַּפֹּ֗רֶת3
- הַכַּפֹּ֖רֶת3
- הַכַּפֹּ֑רֶת1
- הַכַּפֹּ֜רֶת1
- הַכַּפֹּ֙רֶת֙1
- כַפֹּ֖רֶת1
- כַּפֹּ֖רֶת1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular25HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
Exodus
eighteen uses
And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
- כַפֹּ֖רֶתkhaporetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: an atonement cover
Make two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,
- הַכַּפֹּֽרֶת׃hakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
one cherub on one end and one on the other, all made from one piece of gold.
- הַכַּפֹּ֛רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.
- הַכַּפֹּ֔רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
- הַכַּפֹּ֔רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
Set the mercy seat atop the ark, and put the Testimony that I will give you into the ark.
- הַכַּפֹּ֛רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
And I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the Testimony; I will speak with you about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.
- הַכַּפֹּ֗רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
Put the mercy seat on the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place.
- הַכַּפֹּ֔רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
Place the altar in front of the veil that is before the ark of the Testimony—before the mercy seat that is over the Testimony—where I will meet with you.
- הַכַּפֹּ֗רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony and the mercy seat upon it, and all the other furnishings of the tent—
- הַכַּפֹּ֖רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
the ark with its poles and mercy seat, and the veil to shield it;
- הַכַּפֹּ֑רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
He constructed a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
- כַּפֹּ֖רֶתkaporetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: an atonement cover of
He made two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,
- הַכַּפֹּֽרֶת׃hakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
one cherub on one end and one on the other, all made from one piece of gold.
- הַכַּפֹּ֛רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
And the cherubim had wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim faced each other, looking toward the mercy seat.
- הַכַּפֹּ֔רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
- הַכַּפֹּ֔רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
the ark of the Testimony with its poles and the mercy seat;
- הַכַּפֹּֽרֶת׃hakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
Moses took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attaching the poles to the ark; and he set the mercy seat atop the ark.
- הַכַּפֹּ֛רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
Leviticus
seven uses
And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
- הַכַּפֹּ֜רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
- הַכַּפֹּֽרֶת׃hakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the cloud of incense will cover the mercy seat above the Testimony, so that he will not die.
- הַכַּפֹּ֛רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
And he is to take some of the bull’s blood and sprinkle it with his finger on the east side of the mercy seat; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the mercy seat.
- הַכַּפֹּ֖רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
- הַכַּפֹּ֗רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.
- הַכַּפֹּ֖רֶתhakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
- הַכַּפֹּֽרֶת׃hakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
Numbers
one use
When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the mercy seat on the ark of the Testimony. Thus the LORD spoke to him.
- הַכַּפֹּ֙רֶת֙hakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
1 Chronicles
one use
Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.
- הַכַּפֹּֽרֶת׃hakaporetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the atonement cover
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.