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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(head). The ornamental head of a pillar (Ex. 36:38; 38:17³⁸And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass. (Exodus 36:38)
¹⁷And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. (Exodus 38:17); 1 Kings 7:31,38³¹And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round. (1 Kings 7:31)
³⁸Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver. (1 Kings 7:38)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

Crown, head, or capital of a pillar (Ex. 36:38³⁸And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass. (Exodus 36:38); 1 Kings 7:16-20¹⁶And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: ¹⁷And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter. ¹⁸And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter. ¹⁹And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits. ²⁰And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter. (1 Kings 7:16‑20); 2 Chron. 3:15¹⁵Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. (2 Chronicles 3:15); Jer. 52:22²²And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these. (Jeremiah 52:22)).

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Ancient chapiter at Caesarea by the Sea.

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

6858 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

tsepheth

Phonic:

tseh’-feth

Meaning:

from an unused root meaning to encircle; a capital of a column

KJV Usage:

chapiter