# H3727 כַּפֹּרֶת

כַּפֹּרֶת (kappôreth), Strong’s H3727: a lid (used only of the cover of the sacred Ark) KJV: mercy seat.. Occurs 27 times.

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*kappôreth* — a lid (used only of the cover of the sacred Ark)

KJV: mercy seat.

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

Occurs 27 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=18) — You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
- [Exodus 25:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=20) — The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one…
- [Exodus 25:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=34) — You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.
- [Exodus 30:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/31?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/35?v=12) — the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;