כִּיֹּר
kiy.yor
“basin”
Definition
properly, something round (as excavated or bored), i.e. a chafing-dish forcoals or a caldron forcooking; hence (from similarity of form) a washbowl; also (for the same reason) a pulpit or platform
or כִּיֹּר; from the same as H3564 (כּוּר);
- pot, basin, laver, pan 1a) pot, caldron 1b) fire-pot, brazier 1c) basin, laver 1d) platform, stage
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
כִּיֹּר appears 20 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and a basin resting on four supports, with wreaths at each side.
and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh.
King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.
the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils;the basin with its stand;
Anoint the basin and its stand and consecrate them.
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