Lexical Summary qaphats: draw together, shut Original Word: קָפַץTransliteration: qaphats Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-fats') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: draw together, shut Meaning: to draw together, close, to leap, to die Strong's Concordance shut up, skip, stop, take out of the way A primitive root; to draw together, i.e. Close; by implication, to leap (by contracting the limbs); specifically, to die (from gathering up the feet) -- shut (up), skip, stop, take out of the way. Brown-Driver-Briggs H7092. qaphats קָפַץ verb draw together, shut (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic collect, conjoin, tie; Syriac draw together, contract, withdraw (compare NöM 47: ZMG xxxiii (1879), 516); קְפַץ ᵑ7 hasten (double oneself up in running), Pi`el hop, spring); — Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳ק Psalm 77:10, etc.; Imperfect2masculine singular תִּקְמֹּץ Deuteronomy 15:7; 3masculine plural יִקְמְּצוּ Isaiah 52:15; — shut hand Deuteronomy 15:7 (with מִן away from, so as not to lend; opp, פתח Deuteronomy 15:80); mouth, in astonishment Isaiah 52:15, in abject silence Job 5:16; Psalm 107:42; figurative ׳ק רַחֲמָיו 77:10 shut up his compassion. Niph`al Imperfect3masculine singular יִקָּֽפְצוּן Job 24:24 si vera lectio, they draw themselves together, of contraction in death (compare Di Bu; Ol יִקָּֽבְצוּן are gathered in). Pi`el Participle עַלהַֿגְּבָעוֺת מְקַמֵּץ Song of Solomon 2:8 springing (i.e. making repeated contractions of body, in taking leaps) upon the hills ("" מְרַלֵּג). קֵץ see קצץ. |
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