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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
the First Week of Advent

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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #3719 - כָּפַן

Transliteration

kâphan

Phonetics

kaw-fan'

Origin

a primitive root

Parts of Speech

verb

TWOT

1020

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

(Qal) to hunger, be hungry, hungrily desire
(CLBL) to twist, bend

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Ezekiel 1

BSB (1)

Ezekiel 1

CSB (1)

Ezekiel 1

ESV (1)

Ezekiel 1

KJV (1)

Ezekiel 1

LEB (1)

Ezekiel 1

LSB (1)

Ezekiel 1

N95 (1)

Ezekiel 1

NAS (1)

Ezekiel 1

NLT (0)

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

WEB (1)

Ezekiel 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2281) n p k (כפנ KPN) AC: Bend CO: Famine AB: ?: [from: pk- from the bent shape of the palm]

V) n p k (כפנ KPN) - Bend: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) bend - Strongs: H3719 (כָּפַן)

N^m) n p k (כפנ KPN) - Famine: One bent with hunger. KJV (2): famine - Strongs: H3720 (כָּפָן)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

[כָּפַן] verb be hungry, hunger, perhaps also hungrily desire (Aramaic loan-word; compare Aramaic כְּפֵין, כְּפַן,

be hungry; Arabic

is spin wool, wrap a corpse in the shroud); — only

Qal Perfect 3 feminine singular כָּֽפְנָה עַל Ezekiel 17:7 (si vera lectio) this vine stretched its roots hungrily towards ׅ "" ( שִׁלְּחָה לְ.

List of Word Forms

כָּֽפְנָ֧ה כפנה kā·p̄ə·nāh kafeNah kāp̄ənāh