Ransom
כֹּפֶרStrong’s H3724kopher (ko-pher)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kopher is the Hebrew word usually translated “ransom”, “ransom of” and “pitch”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”
Meaning
- Price of a life, ransom, bribe
- Asphalt, pitch (as a covering)
- The henna plant, name of a plant (henna?)
- Village
How it's translated
- a ransom 6
- ransom 3
- ransom of 2
- with pitch 1
- village of 1
- ransom his 1
- henna blossom 1
- henna plants 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Exodus 2
- Numbers 2
- 1 Samuel 2
- Job 2
- Song of Solomon 2
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 21:30If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
- Exodus 30:12When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
- Numbers 35:31Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
- Numbers 35:32And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
- 1 Samuel 6:18And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
- 1 Samuel 12:3Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
Hebrew dictionary
כֹּפֶר kopher · ransom
price of a life, ransom, bribe
כֹּ֫פֶר kopher · pitch
asphalt, pitch (as a covering)
כֹּ֫פֶר kopher · henna
the henna plant, name of a plant (henna?)
כֹּפֶר kopher · village
village Another spelling of ka.phar (כָּפָר "village" H3723H)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ransom” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RAN'SOM, noun
- The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner or slave, or for goods captured by an enemy; that which procures the release of a prisoner or captive, or of captured property, and restores the one to liberty and the other to the original owner.
- Release from captivity, bondage or the possession of an enemy.
- In law, a sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; or a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
- In Scripture, the price paid for a forfeited life, or for delivery or release from capital punishment.“Then he shall give for the ransom of his life, whatever is laid upon him” Exodus 21:30
All definitions and other forms of “ransom”
- The price paid for procuring the pardon of sins and the redemption of the sinner from punishment.“Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom” Job 33:24“The Son of man came - to give his life a ransom for many” Matthew 20:28
RAN'SOM, verb transitive
- To redeem from captivity or punishment by paying an equivalent; applied to persons; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
- To redeem from the possession of an enemy by paying a price deemed equivalent; applied to goods or property.
- In Scripture, to redeem from the bondage of sin, and from the punishment to which sinners are subjected by the divine law.“The ransomed of the Lord shall return” Isaiah 35:10
- To rescue; to deliver.
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.