Strong's #3722: kaphar (pronounced kaw-far')
a primitive root; to cover (specifically with bitumen); figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel:-- appease, make (an atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon, purge (away), put off, (make) reconcile(-liation).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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kâphar
1) to cover, purge, make an atonement, make reconciliation, cover over with pitch
1a) (Qal) to coat or cover with pitch
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to cover over, pacify, propitiate
1b2) to cover over, atone for sin, make atonement for
1b3) to cover over, atone for sin and persons by legal rites
1c) (Pual)
1c1) to be covered over
1c2) to make atonement for
1d) (Hithpael) to be covered
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1023, 1024, 1025, 1026
Usage:
This word is used 102 times:
Ezekiel 45:20: "for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house."
Daniel 9:24: "the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness,"
