כְּפוֹר

Biblical Hebrew

hoar frost — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

hoar frost tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּפוֹר²: n.m. hoar frost tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. hoar frost (NH id.)—כ׳ ψ 147:16; כְּפֹר Ex 16:14 (P), Jb 38:29.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (10 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hoar-frost (3).

In the verses

Psalms 147:16 · tree →

הַנֹּתֵ֣ן שֶׁ֣לֶג כַּצָּ֑מֶר כְּ֝פ֗וֹר כָּאֵ֥פֶר יְפַזֵּֽר׃

Word for word: the.[one who].gives snow like (the) wool hoar-frost like (the) ash[es] he.scatters

JPS 1917: He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.

Job 38:29 · tree →

מִבֶּ֣טֶן מִ֭י יָצָ֣א הַקָּ֑רַח וּכְפֹ֥ר שָׁ֝מַיִם מִ֣י יְלָדֽוֹ׃

Word for word: from the.womb of.whom? does.it.come.forth the ice and.[the] hoar-frost of.heaven who? does he.give.birth.to.it

JPS 1917: Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoar-frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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