Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H3729
כְּפַת
kephathkef-ath'
to bind
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kᵉphath
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3729is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3729
to fetter
The King James renders it: bind.
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
kephath is rendered "to bind". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 3:20and he commanded some mighty men of valor in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and throw them into the blazing fiery furnace.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
and he commanded some mighty men of valor in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and throw them into the blazing fiery furnace.
Daniel 3:20לְכַפָּתָ֔ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bound2
- they were bound1
- to bind1
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- כְּפִ֙תוּ֙1
- לְכַפָּתָ֔ה1
- מְכַפְּתִ֔ין1
- מְכַפְּתִֽין׃ פ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural2AVprmpa
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1AR/Vpcc
- verb · passive (qal passive), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AVQp3mp
Daniel
four uses
and he commanded some mighty men of valor in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and throw them into the blazing fiery furnace.
- לְכַפָּתָ֔הlekhapatahpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to bind
So they were tied up, wearing robes, trousers, turbans, and other clothes, and they were thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.
- כְּפִ֙תוּ֙kefituverb · passive (qal passive), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they were bound
And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, firmly bound, fell into the blazing fiery furnace.
- מְכַפְּתִֽין׃ פmekhapetinverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: bound
Suddenly King Nebuchadnezzar jumped up in amazement and asked his advisers, “Did we not throw three men, firmly bound, into the fire?” “Certainly, O king,” they replied.
- מְכַפְּתִ֔יןmekhapetinverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: bound
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.