כֹּפֶרkôpher/ko'-fer/
HebrewH372417 occurrences (KJV)
properly, a cover, i.e. (literally) a village (as covered in); (specifically) bitumen (as used for coating), and the henna plant (as used for dyeing); figuratively, a redemption-price
KJV renders it: bribe, camphire, pitch, ransom, satisfaction, sum of money, village.
Where it appears
- Gen 6:14Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
- Exod 21:30If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.
- Exod 30:12“When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you count them; that there be no plague among them when you count them.
- Num 35:31“‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
- Num 35:32“‘You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
- 1 Sam 6:18and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone, on which they set down Yahweh’s ark. That stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
- 1 Sam 12:3Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a ransom to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”
- Job 33:24then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’
- Job 36:18Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
- Ps 49:7none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
- Prov 6:35He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
- Prov 13:8The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.
- Prov 21:18The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; the treacherous for the upright.
- Song 1:14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.
- Song 4:13Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,
- Isa 43:3For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
- Amos 5:12For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins — you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.