Basin
כִּיֹּרStrong’s H3595kiyyor (kiy-yor)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kiyyor is the Hebrew word usually translated “laver”, “lavers” and “laver of”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- Pot, basin, laver, panpot, caldron · fire-pot, brazier · basin, laver · platform, stage
How it's translated
- the laver 12
- the lavers 3
- lavers 2
- a laver of 1
- in the pot 1
- to the laver 1
- a laver 1
- a platform of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 9
- 1 Kings 4
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Leviticus 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Kings 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 30:18Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
- Exodus 30:28And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.
- Exodus 31:9And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot,
- Exodus 35:16The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
- Exodus 38:8And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- Exodus 39:39The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
Hebrew dictionary
כִּיֹּר kiyyor · basin
1) pot, basin, laver, pan 1a) pot, caldron 1b) fire-pot, brazier 1c) basin, laver 1d) platform, stage
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “basin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BA'SIN, noun
basn.
- A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
- In hydraulics, any reservoir of water.
- That which resembles a basin in containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a hollow place for liquids, or an inclosed part of water, forming a broad space within a strait or narrow entrance; a little bay.
- Among glass grinders, a concave piece of metal by which convex glasses are formed.
All definitions
- Among hatters, a large shell or case, usually of iron, placed over a furnace, in which the hat is molded into due shape.
- In anatomy, a round cavity between the anterior ventricles of the brain.
- The scale of a balance, when hollow and round.
- In Jewish antiquities, the laver of the tabernacle.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.