Lexical Definition

‎כַּפְתֹּר‎ kaphtôr (kaf-tore') capital ^H:N-M
or (Amos 9:1) כַּפְתּוֹר kaphtôwr (kaf-tore'); probably from an unused root meaning to encircle

knop, (upper) lintel.

• a chaplet
• but used only in an architectonic sense, i.e. the capital of acolumn, or a wreath-like button or disk on the candelabrum

1) bulb, knob, capital, capital of a pillar
1a) knob, bulb (as ornament)
1b) capital (of a pillar)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎כַּפְתּוֺר‎ ‎כַּפְתֹּר‎ noun masculine

1. capital,

2. knob, bulb (

2. perhaps earlier meaning; Hoffm^{ZAW iii. (1883), 124}, compare Syriac pear (Löw^{No. 153}), from shape); —

1. ‎כַּפְתּוֺר‎ Amos 9:1 capital of pillar; so plural suffix ‎כַּפְתֹּרֶיהָ‎ Zeph 2:14.

2. ‎כַּפְתֹּר‎, knob or bulb, ornament on the golden lamp-stand in tabernacle; ᵐ5 σφαιρωτήρ, Jos^{Archaeology iii, 6, 7} ρὁΐσκος small pomegranate; ᵑ9. sphaerula: — Exod 25:33 (twice in verse); Exod 25:35 (3 t. in verse) = Exod 37:19 (twice in verse); Exod 37:21 (3 t. in verse); suffix ‎כַּפְתֹּרֶיהָ‎ Exod 25:31; Exod 25:34 = Exod 37:17; Exod 37:20, ‎כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶם‎ Exod 25:36 = Exod 37:22 (all P).

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