Strong’s H3595 · Hebrew

כִּיּוֹר
kîyôwr
kee-yore'

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

Etymology

or כִּיֹּר; from the same as H3564 (כּוּר);

Where the KJV renders it

  • hearth
  • laver
  • pan
  • scaffold

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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