קָפַד
qâphad · H7088 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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To roll up a finished piece of cloth in order to cut it from the loom, associated with the end or completion of a process (to roll up (a piece of cloth))
ExamplesIsaiah 38:12 “Like a shepherd’s tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me; As a weaver I rolled up my life. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me.
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
- Not stated: I 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חַיalive, living 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as+ אָרַגweaver, to weave 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 3 words
- כָּרַת kârath · H3772 · to cut, to cut off, to cut down
- כָּרַת is the most common Hebrew verb for 'cut off' or 'cut down,' frequently used in contexts of covenant-making, destruction, and excision. While קָפַד (qâphad, H7088) appears only once with the sense 'cut off,' כָּרַת is the standard term for cutting off or severing, making it a strong near-synonym for this rare verb's attested sense.
- גַּזָז gazâz · H1494 · to shear, to shave, to cut off
- גָּזַז means to cut off or shear, often used for shearing sheep but also for cutting off in general. It shares the basic semantic field of severing or cutting with קָפַד, making it a plausible near-synonym for the action of cutting off.
- קָצַץ qâtsats · H7112 · to cut off, to sever, to strip
- קָצַץ means to cut off, cut down, or cut in pieces, used for both literal cutting (e.g., cutting off hands) and metaphorical destruction. It overlaps semantically with קָפַד in denoting the action of severing or cutting off.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Shape002001001052
- The word means to cut off, illustrated by Hezekiah's lament that God cuts him off from the loom like a weaver rolling up finished cloth (Isaiah 38:12).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7088. qaphad [קָפַד] verb Pi`el gather together, roll up (Arabic wind turban snugly;…
[קָפַד] verb Pi`el gather together, roll up (Arabic wind turban snugly; Aramaic קְפַד, , Ithpe`el be drawn in, together; also קוּפְדָא, , porcupine; so Arabic () (compare LagBN 182), Ethiopic ); — Perfect1singular קִמַּדְתִּי Isa 38:12 I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life (i.e. finished it; BuhlLex 13 תָּ- [of ׳י], but 3 masculine singular following of ׳י).
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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