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כַּפְתּוֹר

«כַּפְתּוֹר» in the Tanakh dictionary: capital — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 18 times · Key: 3730 · BDB: כַּפְתּוֹר

Glosses

a.bulb (10); bulbs (6); capital (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

capital tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. capital knob, bulb tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. 1. capital, 2. knob, bulb (2. perhaps earlier meaning; HoffmZAW iii. (1883), 124, comp. Syriac ܟܡܬܪܐ pear (LöwNo. 153), from shape);— כַּפְתּוֹר Am 9:1 capital of pillar; so pl. sf. כַּפְתֹּרֶיהָ Zp 2:14. כַּפְתֹּר, knob or bulb, ornament on the golden lamp-stand in tabernacle; 𝔊 σφαιρωτήρ, Jos Archaeology iii. 6, 7 ῥοΐσκος, small pomegranate; 𝔙 sphaerula:—Ex 25:33(×2), 35(×3) = 37:19(×2), 21(×3); sf. כַּפְתֹּרֶיהָ 25:31, 34 = 37:17, 20, כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶם 25:36 = 37:22 (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «כַּפְתּוֹר» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Exodus 25:34

וּבַמְּנֹרָ֖ה אַרְבָּעָ֣ה גְבִעִ֑ים מְשֻׁקָּדִ֔ים כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ וּפְרָחֶֽיהָ׃

Word for word: and [will be] on.the.lampstand four cups shaped.like.almond.blossoms bulbs its and blossoms its

JPS 1917: And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof.

Exodus 37:20

וּבַמְּנֹרָ֖ה אַרְבָּעָ֣ה גְבִעִ֑ים מְשֻׁ֨קָּדִ֔ים כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ וּפְרָחֶֽיהָ׃

Word for word: and.[were] on the lampstand four cups shaped.like.almond.blossoms bulbs its and blossoms its

JPS 1917: And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;

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