Hebrew verb · H7087
קָפָא
qaphakaw-faw'
to congeal; thickness
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qâphâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7087is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7087
to shrink, i.e. thicken (as unracked wine, curdled milk, clouded sky, frozen water)
The King James renders it: congeal, curdle, dark, settle.
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
qapha is rendered "to congeal; thickness". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to congeal".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:8At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
Exodus 15:8קָֽפְא֥וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in Exodus.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to congeal, and thickness.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to congealStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereExodus 15:8At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm… |
| thicknessStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and frost1
- did you curdle? me1
- they congealed1
- who are thickening1
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
- הַקֹּֽפְאִים֙1
- וְקִפָּאֽוֹן׃1
- קָֽפְא֥וּ1
- תַּקְפִּיאֵֽנִי׃1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HTd/Vqrmpa
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVhi2ms/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
Exodus
one use
At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
- קָֽפְא֥וּkafeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they congealed
Job
one use
Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
- תַּקְפִּיאֵֽנִי׃takpieniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: did you curdle? me
Zephaniah
one use
And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
- הַקֹּֽפְאִים֙hakofeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who are thickening
Zechariah
one use
On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost.
- וְקִפָּאֽוֹן׃veyikpeunconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and frost
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.