כַּפֹּרֶת

kap.po.ret

mercy seat

Strong’s H3727Noun, feminine27 times in the Hebrew Bible

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In the text

Exodus 25:17כַפֹּרֶת
And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
Leviticus 16:2הַכַּפֹּרֶת
And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
Numbers 7:89הַכַּפֹּרֶת
When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the mercy seat on the ark of the Testimony. Thus the LORD spoke to him.
1 Chronicles 28:11הַכַּפֹּרֶת
Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.

כַּפֹּרֶת n. propitiatory, late techn. word cover over sin: the older explan. cover, lid has no justification in usage

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.