כָּפַן
kâphan · H3719 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to bend
Process by which a tree causes its roots to grow in a certain direction
ExamplesEzekiel 17:7 “But there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage; and behold, this vine turned its roots toward him and sent out its branches toward him from the beds where it was planted, so that he might water it.
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גֶּפֶןvine, grapevine 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שֶׁרֶשׁroot 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ וֹhim 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 2 words
- כָּרַע kâraʻ · H3766 · to collapse, to slump down, to kneel
- Common Hebrew verb for bending or bowing down, often in contexts of submission or worship; while כָּרַע emphasizes the downward motion of kneeling/bowing, it shares the core semantic component of physical bending with כָּפַן
- שָׁחַח shâchach · H7817 · to become low, to be in distress
- Hebrew verb denoting the action of bowing or stooping down; overlaps semantically with כָּפַן in the notion of physical bending, though שָׁחַח may carry connotations of being brought low or humbled
Contrasting words 1 word
- קוּם qûwm · H6965 · to arise, to rise up, to stand up
- The lexical opposite of bending/bowing down is standing upright or rising up; קוּם denotes the action of standing, arising, or getting up, representing the opposite physical posture and motion from bending
In the other Testament 1 word
- κάμπτω kámptō · G2578 · to worship, to bow before
- Greek verb for bending or bowing, the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew verbs of physical bending or flexing; κάμπτω is used in NT for bending the knee (Rom 11:4, 14:11, Eph 3:14, Phil 2:10) and would be the natural Greek equivalent for the Hebrew concept of bending
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Stance002001001061
- This word's sole occurrence describes bending or bowing down, a bodily posture, so it belongs among words for bodily stance.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3719. kaphan [כָּפַן] verb be hungry, hunger, perhaps also hungrily desire (Aramaic…
[כָּפַן] verb be hungry, hunger, perhaps also hungrily desire (Aramaic loan-word; compare Aramaic כְּפַן כְּפֵין,, be hungry; Arabic is spin wool, wrap a corpse in the shroud); — only
Qal Perfect3feminine singular עַל כָּֽפְנָה Eze 17:7 (si vera lectio) this vine stretched its roots hungrily towards ׅ || לְ שִׁלְּחָה (.
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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