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Strong's #7092 - קָפַץ
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1) to draw together, close, shut, shut up, stop up
1a) (Qal) to shut
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to draw oneself together (of death)
1b2) to be shut up to death
1c) (Piel) springing, skipping (participle)
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2722) ypq (קפתס QPTs) AC: Close CO: ? AB: ?: A closing in the sense of drawing together. [from: pq- seasons contracting]
V) ypq (קפתס QPTs) - Close: To draw together to close or shut. KJV (7): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Piel, Participle) shut, stop, skip, take out - Strongs: H7092 (קָפַץ)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
collect, conjoin, tie; Syriac 
draw together, contract, withdraw (compare Nö M 47: ZMG xxxiii (1879), 516); ᵑ7קְפַץ hasten (double oneself up in running), Pi`el hop, spring); —
Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular ׳ק Psalm 77:10, etc.; Imperfect 2 masculine singular תִּקְמֹּץ Deuteronomy 15:7; 3 masculine plural יִקְמְּצוּ Isaiah 52:15; — shut hand Deuteronomy 15:7 (with מִן away from, so as not to lend; opp, פתח Deuteronomy 15:80); mouth, in astonishment Isaiah 52:15, in abject silence Job 5:16; Psalm 107:42; figurative רַחֲמָיו׳ק Psalm 77:10 shut up his compassion.
Niph`al Imperfect 3 masculine singular יִקָּֽפְצוּן Job 24:24 si vera lectio, they draw themselves together, of contraction in death (compare Di Bu; Ol יִקָּֽבְצוּן are gathered in).
Pi`el Participle מְקַמֵּץ עַלהַֿגְּבָעוֺת Song of Solomon 2:8 springing (i.e. making repeated contractions of body, in taking leaps) upon the hills ("" מְרַלֵּג).
קֵץ see קצץ.
קָפַץ fut. יִקְפֹּץ (i.q. קָמַץ, קָפַז), to contract, to shut, as the mouth, Job 5:16; Psalms 107:42 the hand (i.e. to be illiberal), Deuteronomy 15:7 trop. mercy, Psalms 77:10.
Niphal, to be gathered, sc. to one’s ancestors, i.q. נֶאֱסַף i.e. to be dead, Job 24:24. Compare قَفَزَ and قَفَسَ to be dead. Schultens, on Job loc. cit. places the primary signification of these words in leaping, springing (see Piel); and this, he remarks, is transferred to sudden death.
Piel, to leap, to spring, compare קָפַז, Song of Solomon 2:8. (Ch. id.)
