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hebrew #3730 - כַּפְתֹּר kaphtor (capital)


Original Word:כַּפְתֹּר
Transliteration: kaphtor
Definition:capital, knob, bulb
Part of Speech:Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:(kaf-tore')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

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.


Englishman's Concordance

1) bulb, knob, capital, capital of a pillar
1a) knob, bulb (as ornament)
1b) capital (of a pillar)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: probably from an unused root meaning to encircle
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1029

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. כַּפְתּוֺרכַּפְתֹּרnoun masculine

1capital,

2knob, bulb (

2 perhaps earlier meaning; HoffmZAW iii. (1883), 124, compare Syriac pear (LöwNo. 153), from shape); —

1כַּפְתּוֺרAmos 9:1capital of pillar; so plural suffix כַּפְתֹּרֶיהָZephaniah 2:14.

2כַּפְתֹּר, knob or bulb, ornament on the golden lamp-stand in tabernacle; ᵐ5σφαιρωτήρ, JosArchaeology iii, 6, 7ρὁΐσκοςsmall 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 כַּפְתֹּרֶיהָExodus 25:31,34=Exodus 37:17,20, כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶםExodus 25:36=Exodus 37:22 (all P).


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3730. כַּפְתֹּר (kaphtor or kaphtor) — 18 Occurrences

Exodus 25:31
HEB:וְקָנָ֔הּ גְּבִיעֶ֛יהָ כַּפְתֹּרֶ֥יהָ וּפְרָחֶ֖יהָ מִמֶּ֥נָּה
NAS: its cups, its bulbs and its flowers
KJV: his bowls, his knops, and his flowers,
INT: shaft cups bulbs flowers at

Exodus 25:33
HEB:בַּקָּנֶ֣ה הָאֶחָד֮ כַּפְתֹּ֣ר וָפֶרַח֒ וּשְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה
NAS: branch, a bulb and a flower,
KJV: made like unto almonds, [with] a knop and a flower
INT: branch the one A bulb flower and three

Exodus 25:33
HEB:בַּקָּנֶ֥ה הָאֶחָ֖ד כַּפְתֹּ֣ר וָפָ֑רַח כֵּ֚ן
NAS: branch, a bulb and a flower--
KJV: branch, [with] a knop and a flower:
INT: branch the other A bulb flower for

Exodus 25:34
HEB:גְבִעִ֑ים מְשֻׁקָּדִ֔ים כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ וּפְרָחֶֽיהָ׃
NAS: shaped like almond [blossoms], its bulbs and its flowers.
KJV: made like unto almonds, [with] their knops and their flowers.
INT: cups shaped bulbs flowers

Exodus 25:35
HEB: וְכַפְתֹּ֡ר תַּחַת֩ שְׁנֵ֨י
NAS:A bulb shall be under
KJV:And [there shall be] a knop under two
INT:A bulb shall be under the pair

Exodus 25:35
HEB:הַקָּנִ֜ים מִמֶּ֗נָּה וְכַפְתֹּר֙ תַּ֣חַת שְׁנֵ֤י
NAS: of branches [coming] out of it, and a bulb under
KJV: branches of the same, and a knop under two
INT: of branches and a bulb under the pair

Exodus 25:35
HEB:הַקָּנִים֙ מִמֶּ֔נָּה וְכַפְתֹּ֕ר תַּחַת־ שְׁנֵ֥י
NAS: of branches [coming] out of it, and a bulb under
KJV: branches of the same, and a knop under two
INT: of branches and a bulb under the pair

Exodus 25:36
HEB: כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶ֥ם וּקְנֹתָ֖ם מִמֶּ֣נָּה
NAS:Their bulbs and their branches
KJV:Their knops and their branches
INT:their bulbs and their branches at

Exodus 37:17
HEB:וְקָנָ֔הּ גְּבִיעֶ֛יהָ כַּפְתֹּרֶ֥יהָ וּפְרָחֶ֖יהָ מִמֶּ֥נָּה
NAS: its cups, its bulbs and its flowers
KJV: his bowls, his knops, and his flowers,
INT: shaft cups bulbs flowers at

Exodus 37:19
HEB:בַּקָּנֶ֣ה הָאֶחָד֮ כַּפְתֹּ֣ר וָפֶרַח֒ וּשְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה
NAS: like almond [blossoms], a bulb and a flower
KJV: branch, a knop and a flower;
INT: branch one a bulb flower and three

Exodus 37:19
HEB:בְּקָנֶ֥ה אֶחָ֖ד כַּפְתֹּ֣ר וָפָ֑רַח כֵּ֚ן
NAS: shaped like almond [blossoms], a bulb and a flower
KJV: branch, a knop and a flower:
INT: branch the other a bulb flower for

Exodus 37:20
HEB:גְבִעִ֑ים מְשֻׁ֨קָּדִ֔ים כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ וּפְרָחֶֽיהָ׃
NAS: shaped like almond [blossoms], its bulbs and its flowers;
KJV: made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers:
INT: cups shaped bulbs flowers

Exodus 37:21
HEB: וְכַפְתֹּ֡ר תַּחַת֩ שְׁנֵ֨י
NAS:and a bulb was under the [first] pair
KJV:And a knop under two branches
INT:bulb was under the pair

Exodus 37:21
HEB:הַקָּנִ֜ים מִמֶּ֗נָּה וְכַפְתֹּר֙ תַּ֣חַת שְׁנֵ֤י
NAS: of branches [coming] out of it, and a bulb under
KJV: branches of the same, and a knop under two
INT: of branches and a bulb under the pair

Exodus 37:21
HEB:הַקָּנִים֙ מִמֶּ֔נָּה וְכַפְתֹּ֕ר תַּֽחַת־ שְׁנֵ֥י
NAS: of branches [coming] out of it, and a bulb under
KJV: branches of the same, and a knop under two
INT: of branches and a bulb under the pair

Exodus 37:22
HEB: כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶ֥ם וּקְנֹתָ֖ם מִמֶּ֣נָּה
NAS:Their bulbs and their branches
KJV:Their knops and their branches
INT:their bulbs and their branches at

Amos 9:1
HEB:וַיֹּאמֶר֩ הַ֨ךְ הַכַּפְתּ֜וֹר וְיִרְעֲשׁ֣וּ הַסִּפִּ֗ים
NAS: Smite the capitals so that the thresholds
KJV: Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts
INT: said Smite the capitals will shake the thresholds

Zephaniah 2:14
HEB:גַּם־ קִפֹּ֔ד בְּכַפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ יָלִ֑ינוּ ק֠וֹל
NAS: Will lodge in the tops of her pillars; Birds
KJV: shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; [their] voice
INT: Both and the hedgehog the tops will lodge Birds

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