Word

חֹפֶן

chôphen · H2651 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

both hands

Two hands joined together in the shape of a bowl; part of the human body

Examples
Proverbs 30:4 Who has ascended into heaven and descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has wrapped the waters in His garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name or His Son’s name? Surely you know!
Ecclesiastes 4:6 One hand full of rest is better than two fists full of labor and striving after wind.
Ezekiel 10:7 Then the cherub reached out with his hand from between the cherubim to the fire which was between the cherubim, took some coals and put them into the hands of the one clothed in linen; and he took them and went out.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 4 groups

הוּhis 2
לְבוּשׁclothing 1
ךָyour 1
כֶםyour 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מָלֵאto be full, to fill 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אֵלto, toward 2
בin/on/with 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 1 groups

מְלֹאgroup 3

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

People001001003: The word denotes the hollow of the hand or a handful, a body-part term used to describe a quantity one can hold or carry.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2651. chophen [חֹ֫פֶן] noun [masculine] hollow of hand (Late Hebrew חוֺפֶן, Aramaic…

H2651. chophen
[חֹ֫פֶן] noun [masculine] hollow of hand (Late Hebrew חוֺפֶן, Aramaic חוּפְנָא חָפְנִי,, ; Ethiopic — also Arabic hollow in the ground; and, acc, to ZehnpfBAB i, 635, Assyrian —upunnu, bowl, but — = ?) — only dual חָפְנַיִם Ecc 4:6; construct חָפְנֵי Eze 10:7 (strike out Co internal grounds); suffix חָפְנֶיךָ Eze 10:2; חָפְנָיו Lev 16:2; Pro 30:4; חָפְנֵינֶם Exo 9:8; ה ׳מַלֵּא Eze 10:2 + Eze 10:7 (strike out Co compare above); — ח ׳מְלֹא = handful Exo 9:8; Lev 16:12 (both P), Ecc 4:6, material follows in implicit accusative; בח רוח ׳מיאֿסף Pro 30:4.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

People6 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0