Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
| Strong's Number: | H3719 |
|---|---|
| Word: | כָּפַן |
| Part of Speech: | verb-stem |
| Etymology: | a primitive root |
| Language: | Hebrew |
| Occurrences: | 1 |
| Transliteration: | kaphan |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | kaw-fan' |
| Meaning: | 1. to bend |
| KJV Renderings: | bend. |
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[כָּפַן] verb be hungry, hunger, perhaps also hungrily desire (Aramaic loan-word; compare Aramaic כְּפֵין, כְּפַן, [untranscribed source text 2608] be hungry; Arabic [untranscribed source text 2609] is spin wool, wrap a corpse in the shroud); — only
Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke
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