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כַּפֹּרֶת H3727

kappôreth

kap-po'-reth

from כָּפַר; a lid (used only of the cover of the sacred Ark); mercy seat.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

כַּפֹּרֶת n. propitiatory, late techn. word cover over sin: the older explan. cover, lid has no justification in usage

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

22 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Exodus 37:6
    And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
  • Exodus 37:7
    And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
  • Exodus 37:8
    One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
  • Exodus 37:9
    And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.
  • Exodus 39:35
    The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
  • Exodus 40:20
    And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
  • Leviticus 16:2
    And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
  • Leviticus 16:13
    And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
  • Leviticus 16:14
    And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
  • Leviticus 16:15
    Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: