kefor · frost; bowl

What it means

kefor (כְּפוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “frost; bowl”.

Frost. Another word with the same letters: a covered bowl (Ezra 1:10).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A gold or silver bowl of the temple.
2. A fine white layer of ice that forms on the ground at night.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• each cup ×4
• bowls ×3
• frost ×3
• cups ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• 1 Chronicles×6
• Ezra×3
• Job×1
• Psalms×1

• Exodus 16:14

  When the layer of dew had gone up, look, on the surface of the wilderness there was something fine, flaky, fine as frost on the ground.

• 1 Chronicles 28:17

  and the forks, the bowls, and the jars of pure gold; and for the cups of gold, by weight for each cup; and for the cups of silver, by weight for each cup;

• Ezra 1:10

  thirty bowls of gold, four hundred and ten bowls of silver of second quality, and a thousand other utensils.

• Ezra 8:27

  and twenty bowls of gold worth a thousand darics, and two utensils of good shining bronze, desirable as gold.

• Job 38:29

  From the womb of whom has the ice come out? And the frost of the heavens, who has given it birth?

• Psalms 147:16

  He gives snow like wool; frost like ashes he scatters.

And 6 more times.