Bible word study

Kiyowr (Strong’s H3595): Meaning in the Bible

Kiyowr (כִּיּוֹר) is the Hebrew word numbered H3595 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, something round (as excavated or bored), i.e. a chafing-dish for coals or a caldron for cooking; hence (from similarity of form) a washbowl; also (for the same reason) a pulpit or platform. In the King James Bible it is translated hearth, laver, pan, scaffold..

• Original wordכִּיּוֹר
• Transliterationkîyôwr
• Pronunciationkee-yore'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH3595
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or כִּיֹּר; from the same as H3564;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Kiyowr appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Kiyowr (H3595) stands behind 23 English renderings in 20 verses across 7 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Exodus (9), 1 Kings (7), 2 Chronicles (3).

How the King James Bible renders Kiyowr, by count

• laver15 of 23 (65 percent)
• lavers5 of 23 (22 percent)
• hearth1 of 23 (4 percent)
• pan1 of 23 (4 percent)
• scaffold1 of 23 (4 percent)

Three places to read Kiyowr

• Exodus 30:18 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
• Exodus 40:7 And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
• 1 Kings 7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Kiyowr in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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