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Strong's #7087 - קָפָא
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- to thicken, condense, congeal, settle, become dense
- (Qal) to be condensed
- thickening (participle)
- (Hiphil) to cause to curdle
- (Qal) to be condensed
- to thicken, condense, congeal, settle, become dense
- n m
- congelation
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1431) pq (קפ QP) AC: Condense CO: Sun AB: ?: The pictograph q is a picture of the sun at the horizon, the p is a picture of the mouth. Combined these mean "sun speaks". As the sun travels through the sky it marks (speaks, commands) the times and seasons (see Genesis 1:14) . The condensing of the light at the sun when at the horizons, a condensing of milk into curdles. A going around of the sun from one horizon to the other.
E) apq (קפא QPA) AC: ? CO: Curdle AB: ?: The condensing of milk into a cheese.
V) apq (קפא QPA) - Curdle: To condense together. KJV (5): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Participle) congeal, settle, curdle, dark - Strongs: H7087 (קָפָא)
J) pfq (קופ QWP) AC: ? CO: Sun AB: ?: A going around of the sun from one horizon to the other.
Nm) pfq (קופ QWP) - Ape: [Unknown connection to root;] KJV (2): ape - Strongs: H6971 (קֹף)
if1) epfqt (תקופה TQWPH) - Circle: The circle of the sun around the earth usually in reference to a time. KJV (4): end, circuit, about - Strongs: H8622 (תְּקֻפָה)
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Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
heap up, collect); — Qal Perfect 3 plural קָֽפְאוּ תְהֹמֹת Exodus 15:8 (song) the deeps were condensed, became firm walls; Imperfect יקפאון Zechariah 14:6 Kt (i.e. יִקְמָּא֑וּן [possible is also יִקָּפֵא֑וּן
Niph`al]) Thes and others glorious(?) ones [stars] shall contract (dwindle), but read Qr וְמָּאוֺן see following Participle הַקֹּפְאִים עַלאשִׁמְרַיהֶם Zephaniah 1:12 the men who are thickening on their lees (easy-going men, under figure of undisturbed wine).
Hiph`il Imperfect 2 masculine singular suffix תַּקְמִּיאֵנִי Job 10:10 didst thou not curdle me like cheese (of formation of foetus) ?
קָפָא to contract oneself, to draw oneself together (cogn. to גָּבָא, syn. גָּבַן), specially
(1) to draw up the feet, to sit with the feet drawn up, Zephaniah 1:12 (compare Jeremiah 48:11).
(2) to curdle, to coagulate as milk (see Hiph.); poet. of the water of the sea, Exodus 15:8 [speaking of a literal miracle].
[“Niphal, to be contracted, withdrawn, Zechariah 14:6, כתיב.”]
Hiphil, causat. of No. 2, Job 10:10. (Talmud. id. Arab. and Syr. قَفَّ, ܩܰܦ id.) Hence
