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Word Study · Strong's H3709 · Hebrew

כַּף

kaph

kaf

the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power

Rendered in the KJV as

branch, [phrase] foot, hand((-ful), -dle, (-led)), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.

  • 192
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 30 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 117
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 192 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 117

  • כַּ֥ף17
  • בְּכַף־6
  • מִכַּ֥ף6
  • כַּפֵּ֣י5
  • כַּפָּ֖יו5
  • מִכַּ֣ף5
  • כַּ֣ף4
  • כַּפּ֥וֹת4
  • כַּפּ֣וֹת4
  • מִכַּ֖ף4
  • כָ֑ף3
  • כַף־3

and 105 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 75

  • from [the] hand of14
  • a pan12
  • hands my11
  • hands his9
  • hands your7
  • [the] palm of6
  • [the] soles of6
  • a palm6
  • palm his5
  • palm my5
  • the pans5
  • [the] sole of4

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 38

  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)30
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)28
  • noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular14
  • noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular12
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)11
  • noun · feminine singular9
  • noun · feminine dual8
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular6
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular6
  • noun · feminine dual · in construct (“…of”)5
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular5
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural5
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HR/Ncfsc · 30
  • HNcfsc · 28
  • HNcfdc/Sp3ms · 14
  • HNcfdc/Sp1bs · 12
  • HNcfpc · 11
  • HNcfsa · 9
  • HNcfda · 8
  • HNcfsc/Sp3ms · 6
  • HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms · 6
  • HNcfdc · 5
  • HNcfsc/Sp1bs · 5
  • HTd/Ncfpa · 5

All 192, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Numbers carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis9 occurrences
Exodus9 occurrences
Leviticus14 occurrences
Numbers20 occurrences
Deuteronomy6 occurrences
Joshua3 occurrences
Judges6 occurrences
1 Samuel5 occurrences
2 Samuel8 occurrences
1 Kings7 occurrences
2 Kings10 occurrences
1 Chronicles1 occurrence
2 Chronicles7 occurrences
Ezra2 occurrences
Job13 occurrences
Psalms20 occurrences
Proverbs9 occurrences
Ecclesiastes1 occurrence
Song of Solomon1 occurrence
Isaiah13 occurrences
Jeremiah5 occurrences
Lamentations3 occurrences
Ezekiel12 occurrences
Daniel1 occurrence
Jonah1 occurrence
Micah2 occurrences
Nahum1 occurrence
Habakkuk1 occurrence
Haggai1 occurrence
Malachi1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).