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כִּפֶּר

ki.pherH3722

to atone

Used 102 times in the tagged text.

H3722A · כִּפֶּר · to atone

What it means

  • to cover, purge, make an atonement, make reconciliation
Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • 1) to cover, purge, make an atonement, make reconciliation
  • 1a) (Piel)
  • 1a1) to cover over, pacify, propitiate
  • 1a2) to cover over, atone for sin, make atonement for
  • 1a3) to cover over, atone for sin and persons by legal rites
  • 1b) (Pual)
  • 1b1) to be covered over
  • 1b2) to be atoned for
  • 1c) (Hithpael) to be covered

H3722B · כָּפַר · to cover

Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • (Qal) to coat or cover with pitch

Same idea, other words · Forgiveness, atonement and reconciliation

The Old Testament pictures forgiveness as lifting or covering sin and atonement as a covering made by sacrifice. The New Testament adds release and reconciliation, and names Christ as the place where propitiation happens.

Where it appears

  • Genesis2
  • Exodus8
  • Leviticus49
  • Numbers16
  • Deuteronomy3
  • 1 Samuel1
  • 2 Samuel1
  • 1 Chronicles1
  • 2 Chronicles2
  • Nehemiah1
  • Psalms3
  • Proverbs2
  • Isaiah5
  • Jeremiah1
  • Ezekiel6
  • Daniel1

Every use · 101–102 of 102 · BSB

  1. Ezekiel 45:20וְכִפַּרְתֶּ֖םand you will make atonement for

    You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for anyone who strays unintentionally or in ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple.

  2. Daniel 9:24וּלְכַפֵּ֣רand to atone for

    Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

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