Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3805
כֹתֶרֶת
kotherethko-theh'-reth
capital
24 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kôthereth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3805is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3805
the capital of a column
The King James renders it: chapiter.
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
kothereth is rendered "capital". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Fifteen of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 7:16He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.
- The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.
The first use
He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.
1 Kings 7:16כֹתָרֹ֜ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fifteen of the word's twenty-four uses are in 1 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the capital7
- the capitals6
- for the capital3
- and a capital2
- and capitals2
- and the capitals1
- capitals1
- to the capital1
- to the capitals1
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.
All 24, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
19 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
- הַכֹּתֶ֥רֶת3
- הַכֹּֽתָר֔וֹת2
- הַכֹּֽתָרֹ֔ת2
- וְכֹתֶ֨רֶת2
- הַכּוֹתֶ֛רֶת1
- הַכֹּתֶ֣רֶת1
- הַכֹּתֶרֶת֮1
- הַכֹּתֶ֛רֶת1
- הַכֹּֽתָרֹת֙1
- הַכֹּתָרֹ֛ת1
- וְהַכֹּתָר֛וֹת1
- וְכֹֽתָרֹ֗ת1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular7HTd/Ncfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural6HTd/Ncfpa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular4HRd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural2HC/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Td/Ncfpa
- noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural1HRd/Ncfpa
1 Kings
fifteen uses
He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.
- כֹתָרֹ֜תkhotarotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: capitals
- הַכֹּתֶ֣רֶתhakoteretthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the capital
- הַכֹּתֶ֥רֶתhakoteretthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the capital
For the capitals on top of the pillars he made a network of lattice, with wreaths of chainwork, seven for each capital.
- לַכֹּ֣תָרֹ֔תlakotarotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: to the capitals
- לַכֹּתֶ֣רֶתlakoteretpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: for the capital
- לַכֹּתֶ֥רֶתlakoteretpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: for the capital
Likewise, he made the pillars with two rows of pomegranates around each grating to cover each capital atop the pillars.
- הַכֹּֽתָרֹת֙hakotarotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the capitals
- לַכֹּתֶ֖רֶתlakoteretpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: for the capital
And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
- וְכֹֽתָרֹ֗תvekhotarotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and capitals
On the capitals of both pillars, just above the rounded projection next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows encircling each capital.
- וְכֹתָרֹ֗תvekhotarotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and capitals
- הַכֹּתֶ֥רֶתhakoteretthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the capital
The opening to each stand inside the crown at the top was one cubit deep, with a round opening like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. And around its opening were engravings, but the panels of the stands were square, not round.
- לַכֹּתֶ֤רֶתlakoteretpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the capital
the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars; the two sets of network covering both bowls of the capitals atop the pillars;
- הַכֹּתָרֹ֛תhakotarotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the capitals
- הַכֹּֽתָרֹ֔תhakotarotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the capitals
the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network covering both the bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars);
- הַכֹּֽתָרֹ֔תhakotarotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the capitals
2 Kings
three uses
Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze capital atop one pillar was three cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its network, was similar.
- וְכֹתֶ֨רֶתvekhoteretconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a capital
- הַכֹּתֶרֶת֮hakoteretthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the capital
- הַכֹּתֶ֛רֶתhakoteretthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the capital
2 Chronicles
three uses
the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars; the two sets of network covering both bowls of the capitals atop the pillars;
- וְהַכֹּתָר֛וֹתvehakotarotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the capitals
- הַכֹּֽתָר֔וֹתhakotarotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the capitals
the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network covering both the bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars);
- הַכֹּֽתָר֔וֹתhakotarotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the capitals
Jeremiah
three uses
The bronze capital atop one pillar was five cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.
- וְכֹתֶ֨רֶתvekhoteretconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a capital
- הַכֹּתֶ֥רֶתhakoteretthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the capital
- הַכּוֹתֶ֛רֶתhakoteretthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the capital
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.