Bowl
כְּפוֹרStrong’s H3713kephor (ke-phor)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kephor is the Hebrew word usually translated “bowls of”, “bowl” and “like frost”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.”
Meaning
- Bowl, basin
- Hoar frost, frost
How it's translated
- and for bowls of 2
- for a bowl 2
- and a bowl 2
- bowls of 2
- like frost 1
- and bowls of 1
- and frost of 1
- frost 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 2
- Exodus 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 28:17Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason; and likewise silver by weight for every bason of silver:
- Ezra 1:10Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
- Ezra 8:27Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
- Job 38:29Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
- Psalms 147:16He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
Hebrew dictionary
כְּפוֹר kephor · bowl
bowl, basin
כְּפוֹר kephor · frost
hoar frost, frost
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bowl” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOWL, noun
[In Latin, vola is the hollow of the hand.]
- A concave vessel to hold liquors, rather wide than deep, and thus distinguished from a cup, which is rather deep than wide.
- The hollow part of any thing; as the bowl of a spoon.
- A basin; a fountain.
All definitions and other forms of “bowl”
BOWL, noun
A ball of wood used for play on a level plat of ground.
BOWL, verb intransitive
To play with bowls, or at bowling.
BOWL, verb transitive
To roll as a bowl; also, to pelt with any thing rolled.
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.