kiyor · basin

What it means

kiyor (כִּיּוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “basin”.

A large vessel for the water in which the priests washed. In other passages, a pot or fire pan.

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 large vessel of water for the priests to wash.
2. A pot or brazier where fire is set or food is cooked.
3. A bronze platform.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• basin ×15
• basins ×5
• like a brazier ×1
• pan ×1
• platform ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×9
• Leviticus×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×7
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 30:18

  “You shall make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing, and put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.

• Exodus 30:28

  the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand.

• Exodus 31:9

  and the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand;

• Exodus 35:16

  the altar of burnt offering and its grating of bronze that belongs to it, its poles and all its utensils, the basin and its stand;

• Exodus 38:8

  And he made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Exodus 39:39

  the bronze altar and the grating of bronze that belonged to it, its poles and all its utensils, the basin and its stand;

• Exodus 40:7

  And you shall put the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

• Exodus 40:11

  And you shall anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.

• Exodus 40:30

  And he put the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water there for washing.

• Leviticus 8:11

  He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.

• 1 Samuel 2:14

  and he would thrust it into the pan or the kettle or the cauldron or the pot; all that the fork brought up the priest took with it. So they did to all Israel who came there to Shiloh.

• 1 Kings 7:30

  And four wheels of bronze belonged to each base, and axles of bronze; and its four corners had supports; below the basin were the supports, cast, with wreaths beside each.

• 1 Kings 7:38

  And he made ten basins of bronze; forty baths each basin held; each basin was four cubits; one basin on each base for the ten bases.

• 1 Kings 7:40

  And Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. And Hiram finished doing all the work that he did for King Solomon in the house of YHWH:

• 1 Kings 7:43

  and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases;

• 2 Kings 16:17

  King Ahaz cut off the panels of the stands, and removed from them the basin; and the Sea he took down from the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stones.

• 2 Chronicles 4:6

  He made ten basins, and put them, five on the right and five on the left, to wash in them; the things for the work of the burnt offering they rinsed in them; and the Sea was for the priests to wash in it.

• 2 Chronicles 4:14

  he made the bases, and he made the basins on the bases;

• 2 Chronicles 6:13

  For Solomon had made a platform of bronze and set it in the middle of the enclosure, five cubits its length, five cubits its width, and three cubits its height; he stood on it, knelt on his knees in front of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward the heavens,

• Zechariah 12:6

  On that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a brazier of fire among wood, and like a torch of fire among sheaves; and they will devour, on the right and on the left, all the peoples around; and Jerusalem will again dwell in its place, in Jerusalem.

And 3 more times.