# kapporet (כַּפֹּרֶת)

pronounced: ka-PO-ret


**The golden cover of the ark — the “mercy seat” — where the blood was sprinkled on Yom Kippur**

## In Scripture

> You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
> — Exodus 25:17 (The cover is made of pure gold and matches the ark’s length and width.)

> There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
> — Exodus 25:22 (The place of meeting: God promises to speak from above the cover, between the cherubim.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/kapporet/