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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #3714 - כָּפִיס

Transliteration

kâphîyç

Phonetics

kaw-fece'

Origin

from an unused root meaning to connect

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TWOT

1021a

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

rafter, girder (meaning dubious)

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Habakkuk 1

BSB (1)

Habakkuk 1

CSB (1)

Habakkuk 1

ESV (1)

Habakkuk 1

KJV (1)

Habakkuk 1

LEB (1)

Habakkuk 1

LSB (1)

Habakkuk 1

N95 (1)

Habakkuk 1

NAS (1)

Habakkuk 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Habakkuk 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2282) x p k (כפס KPS) AC: ? CO: Beam AB: ?

b^m ) x i p k (כפיס KPYS) - Beam: The beam that supports the roof of the house. KJV (1): beam - Strongs: H3714 (כָּפִיס)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

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 Hoffm^{ZAW ii. 1881,71it is changed} from oblong block of wood (O.T.) to a building-stone, or brick in Mishna); — only Habakkuk 2:11 for a stone out of the wall crieth out, מֵעֵץ יַעֲנֶנָּה׳וְכ and a rafter out of the timber-work answereth it.

List of Word Forms

וְכָפִ֖יס וכפיס vechaFis wə·ḵā·p̄îs wəḵāp̄îs