כפר

Aramaic

Verb

כְפַר • (kp̄ar) (future יִכְפַּר (yiḵpar))

1. to deny, to renounce
2. to wipe out, to efface

Noun

כְּפַר • (kp̄ar) m

1. absolute state of כַּפְרָא (kap̄rā, “village; tomb”)

References

• “kpr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–

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Hebrew

Root
כ־פ־ר (k-p-r)

Etymology

(village): From Aramaic כַּפְרָא / ܟܰܦܪܳܐ (kap̄rā, “village, open town, unfortified town”), from Akkadian 𒅗𒀊𒊒 (kapru, “farm, village; a settlement outside of a city”), considered to be from the non-Akkadian “Mari language”, that is it is formed either in the unknown East Semitic or the unknown Amorite language spoken there. Compare Arabic كَفْر (kafr, “village”).

Noun

כְּפָר • (kp̄ār) m (plural indefinite כְּפָרִים, singular construct כְּפַר־, plural construct כְּפָרֵי־)

1. village
   • Tanach, Joshua 18:24:
     – where in a place name כְּפַר, allegedly originally *כָּפָר
   • Tanach, 1 Chronicles 27:25:
     – allegedly originally *כָּפָר
   • Tanach, Nehemiah 6:2:
     – where corrupt כְּפִירִים is emended to *כָּפָר

See also

• עִיר f (ʿī́r)
• עִירוֹנִי m (ʿīrōnī́)

References

• H3723 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Wagner, Max (1966) Die lexikalischen und grammatikalischen Aramaismen im alttestamentlichen Hebräisch (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 96) (in German), Berlin: Alfred Töpelmann, →ISBN, pages 66–67

Further reading

• כפר on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

Verb

כִּפֵּר • (kippér) third-singular masculine past (pi'el construction)

1. defective spelling of כיפר (kippér, “to cover; to pardon”)

Noun

כֹּפֶר • (kṓp̄er) m

1. defective spelling of כּוֺפֶר (kṓp̄er, “henna”)
   • Tanach, Genesis 6:14:
   • Tanach, Song of Songs 1:14:
2. alternative form of כְּפָר (kp̄ār, “village”)
   • Tanach, 1 Samuel 6:18: