Hebrew verb · H3717
כָּפַל
kaphalkaw-fal'
to double
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâphal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3717is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3717
to fold together; figuratively, to repeat
The King James renders it: double.
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
kaphal is rendered "to double". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 26:9Join five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another. Then fold the sixth curtain over double at the front of the tent.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Join five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another. Then fold the sixth curtain over double at the front of the tent.
Exodus 26:9וְכָפַלְתָּ֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- folded double3
- and you will fold double1
- so it may be doubled1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וְכָפַלְתָּ֙1
- וְתִכָּפֵ֞ל1
- כָּפ֑וּל1
- כָּפ֖וּל1
- כָּפֽוּל׃1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular3HVqsmsa
- HC/VNu3fs1HC/VNu3fs
- Hc/Vqq2ms1Hc/Vqq2ms
Exodus
four uses
Join five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another. Then fold the sixth curtain over double at the front of the tent.
- וְכָפַלְתָּ֙vekhafaltaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will fold double
It must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.
- כָּפ֑וּלkafulverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: folded double
It was square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.
- כָּפ֖וּלkafulverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: folded double
- כָּפֽוּל׃kafulverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: folded double
Ezekiel
one use
‘So then, son of man, prophesy and strike your hands together. Let the sword strike two times, even three. It is a sword that slays, a sword of great slaughter closing in on every side!
- וְתִכָּפֵ֞לvetikafelHC/VNu3fstagged: so it may be doubled
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.