{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3727",
  "lemma": "כַּפֹּרֶת",
  "transliteration": "kappôreth",
  "definition": "a lid (used only of the cover of the sacred Ark)",
  "kjv": "mercy seat.",
  "occurrences": 27,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H3722",
      "lemma": "כָּפַר",
      "transliteration": "kâphar",
      "meaning": "to cover",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3722"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "כַּפֹּרֶת n. propitiatory, late techn. word cover over sin: the older explan. cover, lid has no justification in usage"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 25:17",
      "text": "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.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 25:18",
      "text": "You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 25:19",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 25:20",
      "text": "The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 25:21",
      "text": "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.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 25:22",
      "text": "There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 26:34",
      "text": "You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=34"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 30:6",
      "text": "You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 31:7",
      "text": "the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the covenant, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/31?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 35:12",
      "text": "the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/35?v=12"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3727",
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}