◄ 3712. kippah ►
Brown-Driver-Briggs כִּמָּה noun feminine branch frond (probably of palm tree, compare כַּף 3d); — ׳כ Isaiah 9:13; Isaiah 19:15 figurative of nobles, rulers (both opposed to אַגְמוֺן rush, i.e. high and low; "" רֹאשׁ וְזָנָב); with suffix כִּמָּתוֺ Job 15:32 (of wicked under figure of palm-tree). I. כפר (of following; original meaning dubious, but most probably cover, compare Arabic cover, hide; > RS who thinks of Aramaic כָפַר, Pa`el wash away, rub off whence כֹּפֶר כִּמֶּר of washing away, obliteration of sin: Late Hebrew כִּמֶּר, Aramaic כַּמֵּר and derive.; Arabic an expiation (see RSOTJC 438; 2. 381 Kn on Leviticus 4:20 RiBegr. Der Sühne Wecompare 335 f. SmAT Rel. Geschichte. 321 NowArchaeology ii, 192 DrDeut 425 SchmollerSt,Kr. 1891, 205 ff. LagBN 230 ff.)). **On original meaning compare now DrHast. DB PROPITIATION; also Assyrian kuppuru, purify (and derivatives takpirtu) ZimKAT 3. 601 f. MorgensternSin in Babylonian Religion (MVG 1905, 3) 44, 122. Forms and Transliterations וְ֝כִפָּת֗וֹ וכפתו כִּפָּ֥ה כפה kip·pāh kipPah kippāh vechippaTo wə·ḵip·pā·ṯōw wəḵippāṯōw Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts