Kôpher — H3724

Definition

masculine noun

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

1. price of a life, ransom, bribe
2. asphalt, pitch (as a covering)
3. the henna plant, name of a plant (henna?)
4. village

Usually translated as

ransom, bribe, camphire, satisfaction, pitch, sum of money, village

Origin

from H3722

• Derived from Kâphar (H3722)

Greek equivalents

• antállagma (G465)
• lýtron (G3083)
• perikátharma (G4027)

Occurrences

Kôpher occurs 17 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Exodus (2), Numbers (2), 1 Samuel (2), Job (2), Psalms (1), Proverbs (3), Song of Songs (2), Isaiah (1), Amos (1)

• Genesis 6:14 — Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch (בַּכֹּֽפֶר).
• Exodus 21:30 — If there be laid on him a sum of money (כֹּ֖פֶר), then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
• Exodus 30:12 — When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom (כֹּ֧פֶר) for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
• Numbers 35:31 — Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction (כֹ֙פֶר֙) for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
• Numbers 35:32 — And ye shall take no satisfaction (כֹ֔פֶר) for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
• 1 Samuel 6:18 — And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages (כֹּ֣פֶר), even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth-shemite.
• 1 Samuel 12:3 — Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe (כֹ֔פֶר) to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
• Job 33:24 — Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom (כֹֽפֶר).
• Job 36:18 — Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom (כֹּ֝֗פֶר) cannot deliver thee.
• Psalms 49:7 — None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom (כָּפְרֽוֹ) for him:
• Proverbs 6:35 — He will not regard any ransom (כֹּ֑פֶר); neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
• Proverbs 13:8 — The ransom (כֹּ֣פֶר) of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
• Proverbs 21:18 — The wicked shall be a ransom (כֹּ֣פֶר) for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
• Song of Songs 1:14 — My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire (הַכֹּ֤פֶר) in the vineyards of En-gedi.
• Song of Songs 4:13 — Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire (כְּפָרִ֖ים), with spikenard,
• Isaiah 43:3 — For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom (כָפְרְךָ֙), Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
• Amos 5:12 — For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe (כֹ֔פֶר), and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.