Village
כָּפָרStrong’s H3723kaphar (ka-phar)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kaphar is the Hebrew word usually translated “kephar” and “villages”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:”
Meaning
- § village
- Village
How it's translated
- and kephar 1
- and in the villages 1
- in the villages 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Song of Solomon 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 27:25And over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:
- Song of Solomon 7:11Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
Hebrew dictionary
כָּפָר kaphar · Chephar
§ village
כָּפָר kaphar · village
village Also means: ko.pher (כֹּפֶר "village" H3724D)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “village” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VIL'LAGE, noun
A small assemblage of houses, less than a town or city, and inhabited chiefly by farmers and other laboring people. In England, it is said that a village is distinguished from a town by the want of a market.
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.