Hebrew Study
Strong’s Concordance H3730
A readable Hebrew dictionary entry from Strong’s Concordance. Definitions help with word study; the meaning in a verse still depends on context.
Word study
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- Strong’s Concordance
- Transliteration
- kaphtor
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- Strong’s number
- H3730
- Brief meaning
- Probably from an unused root meaning to encircle, a chaplet, but used only in an architectonic sense, i.e. the capital of a column, or a wreath-like button or disk on the candelabrum: knop
- Root word
- kaf-tore' or (Am. 9:1) kaphtowr {kaf-tore'}
- Full definition from the source
- Probably from an unused root meaning to encircle; a chaplet; but used only in an architectonic sense, i.e. the capital of a column, or a wreath-like button or disk on the candelabrum: knop, (upper) lintel. Root word: kaf-tore' or (Am. 9:1) kaphtowr {kaf-tore'}.
Source info
Source and edition
James Strong, Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary (1890); Bible Foundation text source; Michael Grier's 1996 ASCII e-text; CrossWire module 1.2.
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03730\ 3730 kaphtor kaf-tore' or (Am. 9:1) kaphtowr {kaf-tore'}; probably from an unused root meaning to encircle; a chaplet; but used only in an architectonic sense, i.e. the capital of a column, or a wreath-like button or disk on the candelabrum: knop, (upper) lintel.