Lexicon kaphtor: capital, knob, bulb Original Word: כַּפְתֹּרPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: kaphtor Phonetic Spelling: (kaf-tore') Short Definition: bulb NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitioncapital, knob, bulb NASB Translationbulb (10), bulbs (6), capitals (1), tops of her pillars (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs I. כַּפְתּוֺר כַּפְתֹּר noun masculine 1 capital, 2 knob, bulb ( 2 perhaps earlier meaning; HoffmZAW iii. (1883), 124, compare Syriac  pear (LöwNo. 153), from shape); — 1 כַּפְתּוֺר Amos 9:1 capital of pillar; so plural suffix כַּפְתֹּרֶיהָ Zephaniah 2:14. 2 כַּפְתֹּר, knob or bulb, ornament on the golden lamp-stand in tabernacle; ᵐ5 σφαιρωτήρ, JosArchaeology iii, 6, 7 ρὁΐσκος small pomegranate; ᵑ9. sphaerula: — Exodus 25:33 (twice in verse); Exodus 25:35 (3 t. in verse) = Exodus 37:19 (twice in verse); Exodus 37:21 (3 t. in verse); suffix כַּפְתֹּרֶיהָ Exodus 25:31,34 = Exodus 37:17,20, כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶם Exodus 25:36 = Exodus 37:22 (all P).
Strong's knop, upper lintel 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. |
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