To atone
כִּפֶּרStrong’s H3722kipher (ki-pher)
Appears in 94 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kipher is the Hebrew word usually translated “make atonement”, “it will be atoned for” and “made atonement”. It appears in 94 verses of the Old Testament.
“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.”
Meaning
- To cover, purge, make an atonement, make reconciliation(Piel) · (Pual) · (Hithpael) to be covered
- (Qal) to coat or cover with pitch
How it's translated
- and he will make atonement 29
- to make atonement 25
- he will make atonement 6
- it will be atoned for 4
- and make atonement 3
- and he made atonement 3
- and he will make atonement for 2
- and to make atonement 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 44
- Numbers 15
- Exodus 7
- Ezekiel 6
- Isaiah 5
- Psalms 3
16 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 6:14Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
- Genesis 32:20And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
- Exodus 29:33And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
- Exodus 29:36And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
- Exodus 29:37Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
- Exodus 30:10And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.
All 94 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
כִּפֶּר kipher · 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
כָּפַר kaphar · to cover
(Qal) to coat or cover with pitch
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “atone” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ATO'NE, adverb
[at and one.]
At one; together.
All definitions and other forms of “atone”
ATO'NE, verb intransitive
[Supposed to be compounded of at and one. Latin ad and unus, unio.]
- To agree; to be in accordance; to accord.
- To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, amends or satisfaction for an offense or a crime, by which reconciliation is procured between the offended and offending parties.
- To atone for, to make compensation or amends.
ATO'NE, verb transitive
- To expiate; to answer or make satisfaction for.
- To reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease. [Not now used.]
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.