Atonement
כִּפֻּרִיםStrong’s H3725kippur (kip-pur)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kippur is the Hebrew word usually translated “atonement”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- Atonement
How it's translated
- atonement 8
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
- Leviticus 3
- Numbers 2
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
- Exodus 30:16And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
- Leviticus 23:27Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 23:28And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 25:9Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
- Numbers 5:8But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.
Hebrew dictionary
כִּפֻּרִים kippur · atonement
atonement
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “atonement” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ATO'NEMENT, noun
- Agreement; concord; reconciliation, after enmity or controversy. Romans 5:11
- Expiation; satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing or suffering that which is received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; with for.“And Moses said to Aaron, go to the altar, and offer thy sin-offering, and thy burnt-offering, and make an atonement for thyself and for the people” Leviticus 9:7
- In theology, the expiation of sin made by the obedience and personal sufferings of Christ.
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.