H3727 כַּפֹּרֶת
kappôreth — a lid (used only of the cover of the sacred Ark)
KJV: mercy seat.
Derived from כָּפַר kâphar (to cover)
Occurs 27 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- כַּפֹּרֶת n. propitiatory, late techn. word cover over sin: the older explan. cover, lid has no justification in usage
Where it occurs
- Exodus 25:17 — You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.
- Exodus 25:18 — You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
- Exodus 25:19 — Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one…
- Exodus 25:20 — The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one…
- Exodus 25:21 — You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.
- Exodus 25:22 — There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on…
- Exodus 26:34 — You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.
- Exodus 30:6 — You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant…
- Exodus 31:7 — the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the covenant, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,
- Exodus 35:12 — the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;