כַּפְתֹּרkaphtôr
pear
Pronunciation: kaf-tore' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3730
Meanings
1. capital
2. knob, bulb
1. capital (Amos 9:1; Zephaniah 2:14)
2. knob, or bulb, ornament on the golden lamp-stand in tabernacle (Exodus 25:33; Exodus 25:35; Exodus 37:19)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 18 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 25:31 “Make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. Make the entire lampstand and its decorations of one piece—the base, center stem, lamp cups, buds, and petals.
- Exodus 25:33 Each of the six branches will have three lamp cups shaped like almond blossoms, complete with buds and petals.
- Exodus 25:34 Craft the center stem of the lampstand with four lamp cups shaped like almond blossoms, complete with buds and petals.
- Exodus 25:35 There will also be an almond bud beneath each pair of branches where the six branches extend from the center stem.
- Exodus 25:36 The almond buds and branches must all be of one piece with the center stem, and they must be hammered from pure gold.
- Exodus 37:17 Then Bezalel made the lampstand of pure, hammered gold. He made the entire lampstand and its decorations of one piece—the base, center stem, lamp cups, buds, and petals.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).