Lexical Summary kiyyor: pot, basin Original Word: כִּיּוֹרTransliteration: kiyyor Phonetic Spelling: (kee-yore') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: pot, basin Meaning: pot, basin Strong's Concordance hearth, laver, pan, scaffold Or kiyor {kee-yore'}; from the same as kuwr; properly, something round (as excavated or bored), i.e. A chafing-dish for coals or a caldron for cooking; hence (from similarity of form) a washbowl; also (for the same reason) a pulpit or platform -- hearth, laver, pan, scaffold. see HEBREW kuwr Brown-Driver-Briggs H3595. kiyyor כִּיּוֺר כִּיֹּר, noun masculine1 Kings 7:38 pot, basin (Late Hebrew כִּיּוֺר wash-basin, so Aramaic כִּיּוֺרָא) — absolute כִּיֹּר 7:30 8t.; כִּיּוֺר 1 Samuel 2:14 5t.; construct כִּיּוֺר Exodus 30:18 2t.; plural absolute כִּיֹּרוֺת 1 Kings 7:40 (but see below), 2 Chronicles 4:14; כְּיֹּרֹת 1 Kings 7:43; כִּיּוֺרִים2 Chronicles 4:6; construct כְּיֹּרוֺת 1 Kings 7:38; — 1 pot for cooking 1 Samuel 2:14 ("" מָּרוּר קַלַּחַת, דּוּד,). 2 fire-pot אֵשׁ כִּיּוֺר Zechariah 12:6 ("" אֵשׁ לַמִּיד; figurative of chiefs of Judah). 3 basin of bronze for washing, laver; set on a bronze support a. before tabernacle Exodus 30:18, 28; 31:9; 35:16; 38:8; 39:39; 40:7, 11, 30; Leviticus 8:11 (all P). b. 10in number, 5 at each front corner of temple 1 Kings 7:30, 38 (3 t. in verse); 7:43 2 Chronicles 4:14, 6 (1 Kings 7:40 read הַסִּירוֺת as 7:45 and "" 2 Chronicles 4:11, 16, so Hebrew Manuscripts ᵑ9 ᵐ5 Th Ke Sta Klo and others) 4 plat form or stage of bronze (probably round, bowl-like in shape) on which, according to Chronicles, Solomon stood and kneeled 2 Chronicles 6:13. |
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