Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3730
כַּפְתֹּר
kaphtorkaf-tore'
capital
18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kaphtôr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3730is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3730
a chaplet; but used only in an architectonic sense, i.e. the capital of acolumn, or a wreath-like button or disk on the candelabrum
The King James renders it: knop, (upper) lintel.
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
kaphtor is rendered "capital". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Sixteen of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 25:31Then 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.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
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.
Exodus 25:31כַּפְתֹּרֶ֥יהָ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Sixteen of the word's eighteen 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
- and a bulb6
- a bulb4
- bulbs its4
- bulbs their2
- on capitals its1
- the capital1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| כַּפֹּרֶת | kapporeth | mercy seat | Uses27 |
| כַּפְתֹּרִי | Kaphtori | Caphtorim | Uses3 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- כַּפְתֹּ֣ר4
- וְכַפְתֹּ֡ר2
- וְכַפְתֹּר֙2
- וְכַפְתֹּ֕ר2
- כַּפְתֹּרֶ֥יהָ2
- כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ2
- כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶ֥ם2
- בְּכַפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ1
- הַכַּפְתּ֜וֹר1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular6HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular4HNcmpc/Sp3fs
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HNcmpc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HR/Ncmpc/Sp3fs
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Exodus
sixteen uses
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.
- כַּפְתֹּרֶ֥יהָkaftoreihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: bulbs its
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.
- כַּפְתֹּ֣רkaftornoun · masculine singulartagged: a bulb
- כַּפְתֹּ֣רkaftornoun · masculine singulartagged: a bulb
And on the lampstand there shall be four cups shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.
- כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָkaftoreihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: bulbs its
For the six branches that extend from the lampstand, a bud must be under the first pair of branches, a bud under the second pair, and a bud under the third pair.
- וְכַפְתֹּ֡רvekhaftorconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a bulb
- וְכַפְתֹּר֙vekhaftorconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a bulb
- וְכַפְתֹּ֕רvekhaftorconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a bulb
The buds and branches are to be all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
- כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶ֥םkaftoreihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: bulbs their
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.
- כַּפְתֹּרֶ֥יהָkaftoreihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: bulbs its
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.
- כַּפְתֹּ֣רkaftornoun · masculine singulartagged: a bulb
- כַּפְתֹּ֣רkaftornoun · masculine singulartagged: a bulb
And on the lampstand were four cups shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.
- כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָkaftoreihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: bulbs its
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.
- וְכַפְתֹּ֡רvekhaftorconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a bulb
- וְכַפְתֹּר֙vekhaftorconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a bulb
- וְכַפְתֹּ֕רvekhaftorconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a bulb
The buds and branches were all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
- כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶ֥םkaftoreihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: bulbs their
Amos
one use
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.
- הַכַּפְתּ֜וֹרhakaftorthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the capital
Zephaniah
one use
Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.
- בְּכַפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָbekhaftoreihapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: on capitals its
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.