Strong's #3724: kopher (pronounced ko'-fer)
from 3722; properly, a cover, i.e. (literally) a village (as covered in); (specifically) bitumen (as used for coating), and the henna plant (as used for dyeing); figuratively, a redemption-price:--bribe, camphire, pitch, ransom, satisfaction, sum of money, village.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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kôpher
1) price of a life, ransom, bribe
2) asphalt, pitch (as a covering)
3) the henna plant, name of a plant (henna?)
4) village
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H3722
Usage:
This word is used 17 times:
Genesis 6:14: "and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch."
Exodus 21:30: "If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever"
Exodus 30:12: "after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul when thou numberest them; that there be"
Numbers 35:31: "Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death:"
Numbers 35:32: "And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again"
1 Samuel 6:18: "both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great"
1 Samuel 12:3: "have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes"
Job 33:24: "him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom."
Job 36:18: "he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver"
Psalms 49:7: "nor give to God a ransom"
Proverbs 6:35: "He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though"
Proverbs 13:8: " The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke."
Proverbs 21:18: "The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright."
Song of Solomon 1:14: "My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi."
Song of Solomon 4:13: "with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,"
Isaiah 43:3: "thy Savior: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia for"
Amos 5:12: "they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside in the gate"
