כָּפַל
kâphal · H3717 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to fold double
State in which a piece of cloth has been folded in the middle and consists of two layers as a result
ExamplesExodus 26:9 “You shall join five curtains by themselves and the other six curtains by themselves, and you shall double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tent.
Exodus 28:16 “It shall be square and folded double, a span in length and a span in width.
Exodus 39:9 It was square; they made the breastpiece folded double, a span long and a span wide when folded double.
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to be doubled
Process by which an event happens twice
ExamplesEzekiel 21:14 “You therefore, son of man, prophesy and clap your hands; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword for the slain. It is the sword for the great one slain, which surrounds them,
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- Not stated (participle) 2
- חֶרֶבsword 1
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יְרִיעָהcurtain, tent curtain 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 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
- שָׁנָה shânâh · H8138 · to be different, to change, to be affected
- Both the target term and שׁנה (shânâh, H8138) share the sense 'double.' שׁנה is highly polysemous, with at least eight other distinct senses (alter, change, disguise, pervert, repeat, and more) spanning many semantic fields, making 'double' only one small facet of a much broader word, while the target term appears more focused on that sense. The overlap is real but narrow — a genuine but partial synonym relationship limited to this one shared sense.
In the other Testament 1 word
- διπλοῦς diploûs · G1362 · twice as much, double
- διπλοῦς (diploûs, G1362) serves as the direct Greek equivalent of כָּפַל (kâphal, H3717), both denoting the concept of doubling or twofold multiplication with precise semantic correspondence across Hebrew and Greek contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Shape002001001052
- This word means to double or fold something over, producing a doubled shape, so it belongs among words for shape.
- Frequency002001003009
- The same word describes something occurring twice or being repeated, so it also belongs among words for frequency of occurrence.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3717. kaphal כָּפַל verb double, double over (late) (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כְּפַל;…
כָּפַל verb double, double over (late) (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כְּפַל; ᵑ7. כּוּפְלָה כִּיפְלָא,, Nabataean כפל EutNab. No. 20, 7 the double; Christian-Palestinian Aramaic SchwIdioticon 46; North Syriac id.; Arabic the double, posteriors, buttocks; Ethiopic is divide, a part) —
Qal Perfect2masculine singular וְכָפַלְתָּ֫ Exo 26:9 and thou shalt double over the sixth curtain, i.e. probably use it double (Di); Passive participle כָּפוּל folded double, of the breastpiece (חשֶׁןׅ Exo 28:16; Exo 39:9 (twice in verse).
Niph`al Imperfect3feminine singular וְתִכָּפֵל Eze 21:19 and let the sword be doubled, but very dubious; Co reads plausibly תְּשַׁכֵּל let the sword bereave (compare VB).
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
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
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