כִּיֹּר
pot
also: basin, laver, pan fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 16 times (70%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 4 times (17%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 2 times (9%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (4%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 23 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3595 appears — 20 distinct verses across 7 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 9 verses
- Exodus 30:18 כִּיּ֥וֹר n c ms "You shall also make a basin of brass, and the base of it of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
- Exodus 30:28 הַ/כִּיֹּ֖ר ptcl def.art + n c ms the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.
- Exodus 31:9 הַ/כִּיּ֖וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base,
- Exodus 35:16 הַ/כִּיֹּ֖ר ptcl def.art + n c ms the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass, it poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base;
- Exodus 38:8 הַ/כִּיּ֣וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the tent of meeting.
- Exodus 39:39 הַ/כִּיֹּ֖ר ptcl def.art + n c ms the brazen altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,
- Exodus 40:7 הַ/כִּיֹּ֔ר ptcl def.art + n c ms You shall set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.
- Exodus 40:11 הַ/כִּיֹּ֖ר ptcl def.art + n c ms You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.
- Exodus 40:30 הַ/כִּיֹּ֔ר ptcl def.art + n c ms He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.
Leviticus 1 verse
1 Samuel 1 verse
1 Kings 4 verses
- 1 Kings 7:30 לַ/כִּיֹּר֙ prep det + n c ms Every base had four brazen wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet of it had supports: beneath the basin were the supports molten, with wreaths at the side of each.
- 1 Kings 7:38 כִיֹּר֖וֹת הַ/כִּיּ֣וֹר הַ/כִּיּ֣וֹר כִּיּ֤וֹר n c mp cs ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms n c ms He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on very one of the ten bases one basin.
- 1 Kings 7:40 הַ֨/כִּיֹּר֔וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in the house of Yahweh:
- 1 Kings 7:43 הַ/כִּיֹּרֹ֥ת ptcl def.art + n c mp and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases;
2 Kings 1 verse
2 Chronicles 3 verses
- 2 Chronicles 4:6 כִּיּוֹרִים֮ n c mp He made also ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
- 2 Chronicles 4:14 הַ/כִּיֹּר֥וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp He made also the bases, and the basins made he on the bases;
- 2 Chronicles 6:13 כִּיּ֣וֹר n c ms cs (for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)
Zechariah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
כיור — transliterated kîyôwr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “pot.” Where the King James Version says “laver,” newer translations reach for “basin” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. It appears 20 verses across 7 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Exodus. It also covers “basin”, “laver”, and “pan”, alongside “pot” — see its full sense range. See the sense tree, 20-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3595 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 20
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 20 distinct verses.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,368
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,368 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 20 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 9 verses 45%
- 1 Kings 4 verses 20%
- 2 Chronicles 3 verses 15%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 20 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 10 verses · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 35%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 15%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Laver 13×, Lavers 5×
- American Standard Version†: Laver 13×, Lavers 5×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Basin 13×, Basins 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Basin 12×, Basins 3×, Basin of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3595 across 23† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3595 across 23† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3595 across 21† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3595 across 24† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 6 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. pot for cooking 1 S 2:14 (‖ דּוּד, קַלַּחַת, פָּרוּר). e.g. 1 Samuel 2:14
- 2. fire-pot כִּיּוֹר אֵשׁ Zc 12:6 (‖ לַפִּיד אֵשׁ; fig. of chiefs of Judah). e.g. Zechariah 12:6
- 3. basin of bronze for washing laver; set on a bronze support
- a. before tabernacle Ex 30:18, 28; 31:9; 35:16; 38:8; 39:39; 40:7, 11, 30 Lv 8:11 (all P). e.g. Exodus 30:18
- b. 10 in number, 5 at front corners of temple 1 K 7:30, 38(×3), 43 2 K 16:17 2 Ch 4:14, 2 Ch 4:6 (1 K 7:40 read הַסִּירוֹת as v 45 and ‖ 2 Ch 4:11, 16, so Heb. Codd. 𝔊 𝔙 Th Ke Sta Klo al.) e.g. 1 Kings 7:30
- 4. platform or stage of bronze (prob. round, bowl-like in shape) on which, according to Chr, solomon stood and kneeled 2 Ch 6:13. e.g. 2 Chronicles 6:13
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. 1 K 7:38 pot, basin (NH כִּיּוֹר wash-basin, so Aramaic כִּיּוֹרָא)—abs. כִּיֹּר 1 K 7:30 + 8 times; כִּיּוֹר 1 S 2:14 + 5 times; cstr. כִּיּוֹר Ex 30:18 + 2 times; pl. abs. כִּיֹּרוֹת 1 K 7:40 (but v. infr.), 2 Ch 4:14; כִּיֹּרֹת 1 K 7:43; כִּיּוֹרִים 2 Ch 4:6; cstr. כִּיֹּרוֹת 1 K 7:38;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from כור (kûwr) (H3564) — furnace.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
כִּיּוּר
- (כִּיר, כִּיד) paneling work, panel (abacus). B. Bath. 53ᵇ וסד בהן סיוד אחד או כ׳ אחד and added one piece of stucco or one panel. Midd. IV, 6 אמה כ׳ one cubit for the paneling work (tablature of the ceiling in the Temple). Zeb. 62ᵃ, v. כַּרְכּוֹב.
כִּיּוֹר
- basin, esp. the laver for the priests in the Temple court. Midd. III, 6. Tosef. Yoma II, 2; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 16 distinct written forms H3595 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3595, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- גר gir H1615 chalk
- כיר kîyr H3600 stove
- כר kôr H3734 kor
- מכורה mᵉkûwrâh H4351 origin
- מכרה mᵉkêrâh H4380 weapons
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 17 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 20 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 30:18
- Leviticus 8:11
- 1 Samuel 2:14
- 1 Kings 7:30
- 2 Kings 16:17
- 2 Chronicles 4:6
- Zechariah 12:6
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
