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H3724C

כֹּ֫פֶר

ko.pherH:N-M

henna

the henna plant, name of a plant (henna?)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

I. כֹּפֶר noun masculine the price of a life, ransom (ποινή, wergild); — ׳כ Exod 21:30 + 10 t.; suffix כָּפְרְךָ Isa 43:3 כָפְרוֺ Ps 49:8 —

1. a price for ransom of a life Job 33:24; Job 36:18 עַל ׳כ Exod 21:30 (Covt. code; || פִּדְיֹן נַפְשׁוֺ); נפשׁ ׳כ Prov 13:8 לְ ׳כ ransom for Prov 6:35; Prov 21:18; Num 35:31; Num 35:32 (P); כָּפְרוֺ his ransom Ps 49:8 ׅ || ( פדה; כָּפְרְךָ thy ransom Isa 43:3 ׅ || ( תַּחְתֶּיךָ; כֹּפֶר alone 1Sam 12:3; Amos 5:12.
2. in the ritual of P נַפְשׁוֺ ׳כ Exod 30:12 is a half shekel of the sanctuary paid by each male above twenty years at the census in order that there might be no plague upon them. It was offered to Yahweh, לְכַפֵּר על to atone for them.

II. כֹּ֫פֶר noun masculine pitch (Arabic (loan-word, compare Frä150), Syriac ᵑ7. כּוּפְרָא; Assyrian kupru, kupur DlHWB 348; compare גֹּפֶר ?) — Gen 6:14 (P).

III. כֹּ֫פֶר noun masculine name of a plant, El „enna (√ dubious; Late Hebrew כּוֺפֶר; Aramaic כּוּפְרָא, Arabic El „enna, see LöwNo. 159) — a shrub or low tree, with fragrant whitish flowers growing in clusters like grapes, אֶשְׁכֹּל הַכֹּפֶר cluster of Henna Song 1:14 (fragrant, figurative of a beloved one); plural כְּפָרִים Song 4:13.

IV. כֹּפֶר noun [masculine] village; — only singular construct כֹּפֶר הַפְּרָזִי 1Sam 6:18 villages of the peasantry.

כְּפַר הָעַמּוֺנִי see כָּפָר above

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