- Original: קפץ
- Transliteration: Qaphats
- Phonetic: kaw-fats'
- Definition:
1. to draw together, close, shut, shut up, stop up
a. (Qal) to shut
b. (Niphal)
1. to draw oneself together (of death)
2. to be shut up to death
c. (Piel) springing, skipping (participle)
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 2051
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: A primitive root; to draw together that is 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.
Total KJV Occurrences: 7
• shut, 2
Deuteronomy 15:7;
Isaiah 52:15
• skipping, 1
Song of Songs 2:8
• stop, 1
Psalm 107:42
• stoppeth, 1
Job 5:16
• up, 1
Psalm 77:9
• way, 1
Job 24:24