כִּפֶּר (ki.pher) means “to atone” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: kaw-far' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
כִּפֶּר · ki.pher · to atone
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
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כָּפַר · ka.phar · to cover
(Qal) to coat or cover with pitch
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a primitive root; to cover (specifically with bitumen); figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel
KJV glosses: appease, make (an atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon, purge (away), put off, (make) reconcile(-liation).
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| to make atonement | 27 |
| will make atonement | 14 |
| and make atonement | 6 |
| shall make atonement | 4 |
| and made atonement | 2 |
| be atoned for | 2 |
| by making atonement | 2 |
| will be atoned for | 2 |
| accept this atonement | 1 |
| after he has made atonement | 1 |
| also made atonement | 1 |
| and atone | 1 |
| and coat | 1 |
| and makes atonement | 1 |
| and to make atonement | 1 |
| and when atonement has been made | 1 |
| atone for | 1 |
| atoned for | 1 |
| atonement can be made | 1 |
| atonement was made | 1 |
| atonement will be made | 1 |
| can i make amends | 1 |
| he forgave | 1 |
| he shall make atonement | 1 |
| he will cleanse | 1 |
| i can make atonement | 1 |
| i will appease | 1 |
| in order to make atonement | 1 |
| in this way he will make atonement | 1 |
| in this way you will make atonement | 1 |
| is atoned for | 1 |
| is to make atonement | 1 |
| makes atonement | 1 |
| provide atonement for | 1 |
| purifying | 1 |
| so he shall make atonement | 1 |
| so that atonement could be made | 1 |
| that makes atonement | 1 |
| the altar and make atonement for it | 1 |
| the atonement is made | 1 |
| the priests are to make atonement | 1 |
| to atone | 1 |
| to ward off | 1 |
| when atonement is made | 1 |
| when i make atonement | 1 |
| will be dissolved | 1 |
| will pacify it | 1 |
| wipe out | 1 |
| you shall make atonement | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| shall make an atonement | 20 |
| to make an atonement | 16 |
| and make an atonement | 10 |
| and he shall make an atonement | 4 |
| and made an atonement | 2 |
| and to make an atonement | 2 |
| shall not be purged | 2 |
| to make atonement | 2 |
| to make reconciliation | 2 |
| and have made an atonement | 1 |
| and purge | 1 |
| and shalt pitch | 1 |
| and to make reconciliation | 1 |
| and will be merciful | 1 |
| be merciful | 1 |
| be purged | 1 |
| cannot be cleansed | 1 |
| for him to make atonement | 1 |
| for himself and shall make an atonement | 1 |
| for you and wherewith shall i make the atonement | 1 |
| forgave | 1 |
| forgive | 1 |
| i shall make an atonement | 1 |
| i will appease | 1 |
| in to make an atonement | 1 |
| is purged | 1 |
| it to make reconciliation | 1 |
| made an atonement | 1 |
| make an atonement | 1 |
| maketh an atonement | 1 |
| of reconciling | 1 |
| pardon | 1 |
| purged | 1 |
| shall be disannulled | 1 |
| shall be forgiven | 1 |
| shall he make atonement | 1 |
| shall they purge | 1 |
| so shall ye reconcile | 1 |
| stead shall make the atonement | 1 |
| that maketh atonement | 1 |
| those things wherewith the atonement was made | 1 |
| thou shalt make an atonement | 1 |
| thou shalt purge them away | 1 |
| to put it off | 1 |
| to reconcile | 1 |
| unto you to make an atonement | 1 |
| us and purge away | 1 |
| when i am pacified | 1 |
| when thou hast made an atonement | 1 |
| whereby an atonement shall be made | 1 |
| will pacify | 1 |
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Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
Read word by wordYou are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.21
They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.
Read word by wordSacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
Read word by wordFor seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.
Read word by wordOnce a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar is most holy to the LORD.”
Read word by wordIn making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.
Read word by wordTake the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will serve as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD to make atonement for your lives.”
Read word by wordThe next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
Read word by wordHe is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.
Read word by wordHe shall offer this bull just as he did the bull for the sin offering; in this way the priest will make atonement on their behalf, and they will be forgiven.
Read word by wordHe must burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the peace offerings; thus the priest will make atonement for that man’s sin, and he will be forgiven.
Read word by wordThen he is to remove all the fat, just as it is removed from the peace offering, and the priest is to burn it on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.
Read word by wordAnd he shall remove all the fat, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the peace offerings, and he shall burn it on the altar along with the food offerings to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.
Read word by wordand he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin.
Read word by wordAnd the priest must prepare the second bird as a burnt offering according to the ordinance. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.
Read word by wordIn this way the priest will make atonement for him for any of these sins he has committed, and he will be forgiven. The remainder will belong to the priest, like the grain offering.”
Read word by wordRegarding any holy thing he has harmed, he must make restitution by adding a fifth of its value to it and giving it to the priest, who will make atonement on his behalf with the ram as a guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.
Read word by wordHe is to bring to the priest an unblemished ram of proper value from the flock as a guilt offering. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the wrong he has committed in ignorance, and he will be forgiven.
Read word by wordIn this way the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for anything he may have done to incur guilt.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.26
But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it must be burned.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 6.23
The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.
Read word by wordMoses slaughtered the bull, took some of the blood, and applied it with his finger to all four horns of the altar, purifying the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it so that atonement could be made on it.
Read word by wordWhat has been done today has been commanded by the LORD in order to make atonement on your behalf.
Read word by wordThen Moses said to Aaron, “Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering to make atonement for yourself and for the people. And sacrifice the people’s offering to make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded.”
Read word by word“Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the congregation by making atonement for them before the LORD.
Read word by wordAnd the priest will present them before the LORD and make atonement for her; and she shall be ceremonially cleansed from her flow of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or to a female.
Read word by wordBut if she cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”
Read word by wordThe rest of the oil in his palm, the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.
Read word by wordThen the priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. After that, the priest shall slaughter the burnt offering
Read word by wordand offer it on the altar, with the grain offering, to make atonement for him, and he will be clean.
Read word by wordIf, however, the person is poor and cannot afford these offerings, he is to take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,
Read word by wordThe rest of the oil in his palm, the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.
Read word by wordone as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the one to be cleansed.
Read word by wordFinally, he is to release the live bird into the open fields outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.
Read word by wordThe priest is to sacrifice them, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for the man before the LORD because of his discharge.
Read word by wordThe priest is to sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge.
Read word by wordAaron is to present the bull for his sin offering and make atonement for himself and his household.
Read word by wordBut the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement by sending it into the wilderness as the scapegoat.
Read word by wordWhen Aaron presents the bull for his sin offering and makes atonement for himself and his household, he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.
Read word by wordSo he shall make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the impurities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to do the same for the Tent of Meeting which abides among them in the midst of their impurities.
Read word by wordNo one may be in the Tent of Meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he leaves, after he has made atonement for himself, his household, and the whole assembly of Israel.
Read word by wordThen he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He is to take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on all the horns of the altar.
Read word by wordWhen Aaron has finished purifying the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he is to bring forward the live goat.
Read word by wordHe is to bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his own clothes. Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering to make atonement for himself and for the people.
Read word by wordThe bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up.
Read word by wordbecause on this day atonement will be made for you to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
Read word by wordThe priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest shall make atonement. He will put on the sacred linen garments
Read word by wordand make atonement for the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, and for the priests and all the people of the assembly.
Read word by wordThis is to be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement once a year for the Israelites because of all their sins.” And all this was done as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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