# H3722 כָּפַר

כָּפַר (kâphar), Strong’s H3722: to cover (specifically with bitumen); figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel KJV: appease, make (an atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be…

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*kâphar* — to cover (specifically with bitumen); figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel

KJV: appease, make (an atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon…

Occurs 103 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- כִּפֶּר vb. Pi. etc. denom. cover over (fig.), pacify, make propitiation
- Pi.
- 1 cover over, pacify, propitiate
- 2 cover over, atone for sin, without sacrifice
- 3 cover over, atone for sin and persons by legal rites
- Pu. be covered over, atoned for
- Hithp. the iniquity of the house of Eli shall not be covered by peace-offering or minchah
- Niph. and the blood shall be covered for them
- כָּפַר vb. denom
- כָּפַר vb. denom. Gn 6:14 and thou shalt pitch it with pitch (P).

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 6:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=14) — Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
- [Genesis 32:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=21) — You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’” For, he said, “I will appease him with…
- [Exodus 29:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/29?v=33) — They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them; but a stranger shall not…
- [Exodus 29:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/29?v=36) — Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement…
- [Exodus 29:37](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/29?v=37) — Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches…
- [Exodus 30:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=10) — Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the…
- [Exodus 30:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=15) — The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of…
- [Exodus 30:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=16) — You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of…
- [Exodus 32:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/32?v=30) — On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD. Perhaps I shall…
- [Leviticus 1:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/1?v=4) — He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.