Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A post or station where money is collected from passengers for maintaining the security of the roads.
- noun The tax so collected.
Etymologies
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Examples
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That which, Exod.xxv. 17, is called capporeth, from caphar, properly to cover, is here called hilastērion, that which Christ is said to be, Rom. iii.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967
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Testament where Greek "propitiation" occurs, is 1Jo 4: 10; it answers in the Septuagint to Hebrew, "caphar," to effect an atonement or reconciliation with God; and in Eze 44: 29, to the sin offering.
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The name of Capernaum, containing the word caphar, “village,” seems to designate a small town of the ancient character, in opposition to the great towns built according to the Roman method, like Tiberias. [
The Life of Jesus Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1863
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The name of Capernaum, containing the word _caphar_, "village," seems to designate a small town of the ancient character, in opposition to the great towns built according to the Roman method, like Tiberias. [
The Life of Jesus Ernest Renan 1857
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The caphar of the Franks now is fourteen dollars: and Europe does not complain of this voluntary tax.]
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The caphar of the Franks now is fourteen dollars: and Europe does not complain of this voluntary tax.]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
qms commented on the word caphar
The caravans come from afar
With goods for the local bazaar
Paid each local chief,
Lest they come to grief,
A bribe that they called a caphar.
October 31, 2018