# כֹּפֶר (kofer)

Israeli respelling: ko-fer. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3724. 17 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: bribe, camphire, pitch, ransom, satisfaction, sum of money, village.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/kofer-h3724

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 6:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/6/14) — Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
- [Exodus 21:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/21/30) — If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
- [Exodus 30:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/30/12) — When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD,…
- [Numbers 35:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/35/31) — Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
- [Numbers 35:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/35/32) — And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the…
- [1 Samuel 6:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/6/18) — And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and o…
- [1 Samuel 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/3) — Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom h…
- [Job 33:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/24) — Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
- [Job 36:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/18) — Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
- [Psalms 49:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/7) — None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
- [Proverbs 6:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/35) — He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
- [Proverbs 13:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/8) — The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
- [Proverbs 21:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/18) — The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
- [Song of Solomon 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/1/14) — My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
- [Song of Solomon 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/4/13) — Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
- [Isaiah 43:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/3) — For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
- [Amos 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/12) — For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the…