Kîyôwr — H3595

Definition

masculine noun

properly, something round (as excavated or bored), i.e. a chafing-dish forcoals or a caldron forcooking; hence (from similarity of form) a washbowl; also (for the same reason) a pulpit or platform

1. pot, basin, laver, pan
1. pot, caldron
2. fire-pot, brazier
3. basin, laver
4. platform, stage

Usually translated as

laver, hearth, pan, scaffold

Origin

or kîyôr; from the same as H3564

• Same as Kûwr (H3564)

Greek equivalents

• básis (G939)

Occurrences

Kîyôwr occurs 23 times in 20 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (9), Leviticus (1), 1 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (4), 2 Kings (1), 2 Chronicles (3), Zechariah (1)

• Exodus 30:18 — Thou shalt also make a laver (כִּיּ֥וֹר) of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
• Exodus 30:28 — And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver (הַכִּיֹּ֖ר) and his foot.
• Exodus 31:9 — And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver (הַכִּיּ֖וֹר) and his foot,
• Exodus 35:16 — The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver (הַכִּיֹּ֖ר) and his foot,
• Exodus 38:8 — And he made the laver (הַכִּיּ֣וֹר) of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
• Exodus 39:39 — The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver (הַכִּיֹּ֖ר) and his foot,
• Exodus 40:7 — And thou shalt set the laver (הַכִּיֹּ֔ר) between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
• Exodus 40:11 — And thou shalt anoint the laver (הַכִּיֹּ֖ר) and his foot, and sanctify it.
• Exodus 40:30 — And he set the laver (הַכִּיֹּ֔ר) between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.
• Leviticus 8:11 — And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver (הַכִּיֹּ֛ר) and his foot, to sanctify them.
• 1 Samuel 2:14 — And he struck it into the pan (בַכִּיּ֜וֹר), or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.
• 1 Kings 7:30 — And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver (לַכִּיֹּר֙) were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
• 1 Kings 7:38 — Then made he ten lavers (כִיֹּר֖וֹת) of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
• 1 Kings 7:38 — Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver (הַכִּיּ֣וֹר) contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
• 1 Kings 7:38 — Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver (הַכִּיּ֣וֹר) was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
• 1 Kings 7:38 — Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver (כִּיּ֤וֹר).
• 1 Kings 7:40 — And Hiram made the lavers (הַ֨כִּיֹּר֔וֹת), and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
• 1 Kings 7:43 — And the ten bases, and ten lavers (הַכִּיֹּרֹ֥ת) on the bases;
• 2 Kings 16:17 — And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver (הַכִּיֹּ֔ר) from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.
• 2 Chronicles 4:6 — He made also ten lavers (כִּיּוֹרִים֮), and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
• 2 Chronicles 4:14 — He made also bases, and lavers (הַכִּיֹּר֥וֹת) made he upon the bases;
• 2 Chronicles 6:13 — For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold (כִּיּ֣וֹר), of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,
• Zechariah 12:6 — In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth (כְּֽכִיּ֧וֹר) of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.