Hebrew verb · H3700
כָּסַף
kasaphkaw-saf'
to long
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâçaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3700is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3700
properly, to become pale, i.e. (by implication) to pine after; also to fear
The King James renders it: (have) desire, be greedy, long, sore.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kasaph is rendered "to long". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:30Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
Genesis 31:30נִכְסֹ֥ף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- ashamed1
- certainly to long for1
- it has longed1
- it longs1
- you longed1
- you will long1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יִכְס֣וֹף1
- נִכְסֹ֥ף1
- נִכְסָֽף׃1
- נִכְסְפָ֬ה1
- נִכְסַ֖פְתָּה1
- תִכְסֹֽף׃1
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive absolute1HVNaa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVNp2ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVNp3fs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular1HVNrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqi2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
Genesis
two uses
Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
- נִכְסֹ֥ףnikhsofverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to long for
- נִכְסַ֖פְתָּהnikhsaftahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you longed
Job
one use
You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands.
- תִכְסֹֽף׃tikhsofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will long
Psalms
two uses
like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
- יִכְס֣וֹףyikhsofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it longs
My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- נִכְסְפָ֬הnikhsefahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has longed
Zephaniah
one use
Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,
- נִכְסָֽף׃nikhsafverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: ashamed
The letters
Gematria 160· 880 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.