# H3724 כֹּפֶר

כֹּפֶר (kôpher), Strong’s H3724: properly, a cover, i.e. (literally) a village (as covered in); (specifically) bitumen (as used for coating), and the henna plant (as used for dyeing);… KJV: bribe…

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*kôpher* — properly, a cover, i.e. (literally) a village (as covered in); (specifically) bitumen (as used for coating), and the henna plant (as used for dyeing);…

KJV: bribe, camphire, pitch, ransom, satisfaction, sum of money, village.

Derived from [כָּפַר kâphar](https://besorah.bible/word/H3722) (to cover)

Occurs 17 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- כֹּ֫פֶר n.m. pitch—Gn 6:14 (P).
- כֹּ֫פֶר n.m
- כֹּ֫פֶר n.m. name of a plant, El Ḥenna
- כֹּפֶר n.m
- כֹּפֶר n.m. the price of a life, ransom
- כֹּפֶר n.[m.]
- כֹּפֶר n.[m.] village;—only sg. cstr. 1 S 6:18

## 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.
- [Exodus 21:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=30) — If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.
- [Exodus 30:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=12) — “When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall…
- [Numbers 35:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=31) — “‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.
- [Numbers 35:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=32) — “‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land…
- [1 Samuel 6:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=18) — and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of…
- [1 Samuel 12:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/12?v=3) — Here I am. Witness against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I…
- [Isaiah 43:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/43?v=3) — For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba…
- [Amos 5:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/5?v=12) — For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who…
- [Psalms 49:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/49?v=8) — none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.