Hebrew verb · H3721
כָּפַף
kaphaphkaw-faf'
to bend
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâphaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3721is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3721
to curve
The King James renders it: bow down (self).
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
kaphaph is rendered "to bend". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 57:6They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
Psalms 57:6כָּפַ֪ף
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
- ¿ to bend down1
- are bent down1
- it bent down1
- those are bent down1
- will I bend myself down1
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
- אִכַּ֖ף1
- הַכְּפוּפִֽים׃1
- הֲלָכֹ֨ף1
- כְּפוּפִ֑ים1
- כָּפַ֪ף1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural1HTd/Vqsmpa
- question particle + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HTi/R/Vqcc
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVNi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural1HVqsmpa
Psalms
three uses
They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
- כָּפַ֪ףkafafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it bent down
The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
- הַכְּפוּפִֽים׃hakefufimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: those are bent down
the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
- כְּפוּפִ֑יםkefufimverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: are bent down
Isaiah
one use
Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
- הֲלָכֹ֨ףhalakhofquestion particle + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: ¿ to bend down
Micah
one use
With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
- אִכַּ֖ףʾikafverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: will I bend myself down
The letters
Gematria 180· 900 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.