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כִּפֻּר

kipur · expiation

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3725 · appears 7 times in the Bible

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What it means

kipur (כִּפֻּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “expiation”.

What covers sin so that it may be forgiven. "The day of expiation" is the yearly day for it (Leviticus 23:27).

How to say it

ki·pur

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. What covers sin so that it is forgiven.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

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Where it appears

  • Exodus 29:36

    A bull for a sin offering you shall offer each day for expiation; and you shall purify the altar when you make expiation for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.

  • Exodus 30:10

    Aaron shall make expiation on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of expiation once in the year he shall make expiation for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to YHWH.”

  • Leviticus 23:27

    “But on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Expiation; you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall afflict your souls and present a fire offering to YHWH.

  • Leviticus 23:28

    And you shall do no work at all on this very day, for it is a day of expiation, to make expiation for you before YHWH your Elohim.

  • Leviticus 25:9

    Then you shall sound the horn of acclamation in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month; on the Day of Expiation you shall sound the horn throughout all your land.

  • Numbers 5:8

    But if the man has no kinsman redeemer to whom to restore what is owed, what is owed that is restored goes to YHWH, to the priest, besides the ram of expiation with which expiation shall be made for him.

  • Numbers 29:11

    one male goat as a sin offering, besides the sin offering of expiation and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations.