Definition

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

Etymology

or (Amos 9:1) כַּפְתּוֹר; probably from an unused root meaning to encircle;

Where the KJV renders it

• knop
• (upper) lintel

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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