כָּפִיס
kâphîyç · H3714 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Thing
- Crossbeam, rafterRoof, housetop9 verses
Meanings
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rafter, beam
Exact meaning uncertain; possibly a part of a building used to support the roof, like a rafter or a beam
ExamplesHabakkuk 2:11 “For the stone will cry out from the wall, And the rafter will answer it from the framework.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָנָהto answer 1
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- קוֹרָה qôwrâh · H6982 · log, beam, rafter
- Hebrew קוֹרָה is the common word for an architectural beam or rafter, synonymous with כָּפִיס in denoting a structural timber element in building construction.
In the other Testament 1 word
- δοκός dokós · G1385 · beam
- Greek δοκός is the standard translation-equivalent for architectural 'beam' in the LXX and NT, denoting a horizontal structural timber exactly matching the sense of Hebrew כָּפִיס.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Buildings001003002001
- This word's sole occurrence (Habakkuk 2:11) refers to a wooden beam within a building's structure, so it belongs among building terms.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3714. kaphis כָּפִיס noun masculine apparently (si vera lectio) technical term for some…
כָּפִיס noun masculine apparently (si vera lectio) technical term for some beam in a house, perhaps rafter, or girder (Late Hebrew id., Levy, Jastrow, but according to HoffmZAW ii. 1881, 71 it is changed from oblong block of wood (O.T.) to a building-stone, or brick in Mishna); — only Hab 2:11 for a stone out of the wall crieth out, ׳וְכ יַעֲנֶנָּה מֵעֵץ and a rafter out of the timber-work answereth it.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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