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Lexicon :: Strong's H3709 - kap̄

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כַּף
Transliteration
kap̄
Pronunciation
kaf
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1022a

Strong’s Definitions

כַּף kaph, kaf; from H3721; the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power:—branch, foot, hand((-ful), -dle, (-led)), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 192x

The KJV translates Strong's H3709 in the following manner: hand (128x), spoon (24x), sole (19x), palm (5x), hollow (3x), handful (2x), apiece (1x), branches (1x), breadth (with H4096) (1x), clouds (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 192x
The KJV translates Strong's H3709 in the following manner: hand (128x), spoon (24x), sole (19x), palm (5x), hollow (3x), handful (2x), apiece (1x), branches (1x), breadth (with H4096) (1x), clouds (1x), miscellaneous (7x).
  1. palm, hand, sole, palm of the hand, hollow or flat of the hand

    1. palm, hollow or flat of the hand

    2. power

    3. sole (of the foot)

    4. hollow, objects, bending objects, bent objects

      1. of thigh-joint

      2. pan, vessel (as hollow)

      3. hollow (of sling)

      4. hand-shaped branches or fronds (of palm trees)

      5. handles (as bent)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כַּף kaph, kaf; from H3721; the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power:—branch, foot, hand((-ful), -dle, (-led)), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.
STRONGS H3709: Abbreviations
כַּף 192 noun feminine 1 Kings 8:54 hollow, or flat of the hand, palm, sole of foot, pan (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic id., bdb049605 Assyrian kappu, hand, pan, kippatu, hollow; Arabic bdb049606 palm, hand) — absolute כ׳ Job 29:9 +, so read probably also Ezekiel 29:7b for MT כָּתֵף (Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Sm Co, compare Ezekiel 29:7a); כָּ֑ף 2 Kings 11:12 +; more often construct כַּף Genesis 40:11 +; suffix כַּפִּי Judges 12:3, כַּפְּךָ Job 13:31, etc.; in Ezekiel 29:7 read כַּף Qr for כפך Kt (so Ew Hi Sm Co Da); dual כַּפַּיִס Isaiah 49:16 +; construct כַּפֵּי Exodus 29:24 (twice in verse) + 3 times; suffix כַּפַּי Genesis 20:5 +, כַּפָּיו Numbers 24:10 +, כַּפֵּיהֶס Isaiah 59:6 + 2 times, כַּפֵּימוֹ Job 27:23, etc.; plural כַּפּוֹת (especially of soles, and in metaphor senses) absolute Numbers 4:7 +; construct 2 Kings 9:35 +, suffix כַּפֹתָיו Exodus 25:29; Exodus 37:16; —
1.
a. of human beings, hollow or flat of hand, palm, (approximately + 116 times) 2 Kings 4:34 (twice in verse); נָתַן אֵת הַכּוס עַלכּכַּף פ׳ Genesis 40:11, 21 (E), set the cup upon the palm of Pharaoh (compare Genesis 40:11a בְּיָדִי פַּרְעֹה וְכוֹס), similarly Leviticus 8:27 (twice in verse) (P) +; עַל־כַּפּוֹ אֲשֶׁר הַשֶּׁמֶן Leviticus 14:16, 17, 18, 27, 28; as distinguished from wrist and arm, Deuteronomy 25:12; rarely with ידים (always כַּכּוֺת), ידיו כַּפּוֹת שְׁתֵּי1 Samuel 5:4 (of Dagon), הַיָּדַיִם כ׳ 2 Kings 9:35, compare Daniel 10:10; כַּף הַשְּׂמָאלִית Leviticus 14:15, 26; note especially קֶמַח מְלֹא כ׳ 1 Kings 17:12 a handful of meal (literally palmful), compare Ecclesiastes 4:6 (where distinguished from מלא חָפְנַיִם a double fistful; in both these passages of a very small quantity); compare מִן כַּפּוֹ וַיְמַלֵּא Leviticus 9:17 (reference to מְלֹא קֻמְצוֺ Leviticus 2:2; Leviticus 5:12; compare Leviticus 6:8). In Exodus 4:4 (JE), Proverbs 31:19; Ezekiel 21:16; Psalm 129:7, etc., the thought is that of grasping.
b. anthropomorph. of י׳ covering Moses over with his palm, עָלֶיך כַפִּי וְשַׂכֹּתִי Exodus 33:22 (J), and so figurative (with שׁית) Psalm 139:5; withdrawing )הֵסִירׅ his hand Exodus 33:23 (J); removing )הִרְהִּיק ׅ his afficting hand Job 13:21; אוֺר כִּסָּה עַל־כַּפַּיִס Job 36:32, i.e. he (God) hath filled his palms with light.
c. once of animals, עַל־כַּפָּיו הוֹלֵךְ Leviticus 11:27 going upon their palms, i.e. paws (cats, dogs, etc.).
d. phrases are: —
†(1) (הִכָּה כַּף = clap the hands, in applause 2 Kings 11:12 so תָּקַע כ׳ Psalm 47:2, מָחָא כ׳ Isaiah 55:12 (figurative of trees), Psalm 98:8 (figurative of rivers); but especially in scorn, contempt, etc., אֶת־כַּפָּיו סָפַק Numbers 24:10 (J), כַפֵּ֑ימוֹ עָלֵימוֺ יִשְׂפֹּק Job 27:23; so תָּקַע כַּף עלֿ Nahum 3:19, אֶל־ כַפִּי הִכָּה Ezekiel 22:13 (of י׳); absolute, הִכָּה בְכַפְּךָ Ezekiel 6:11 (as מחא יד Ezekiel 25:6), הִכָּה כַּף אֶלכַּֿף Ezekiel 21:19, אֶל־כַּפִּי כַפִּי אַכֶּה Ezekiel 21:22 (of י׳).
†(2) תָּפַשׂ בַּכַּף grasp, seize with the hand Ezekiel 29:7 compare Ezekiel 29:7 (on text see above)
†(3) of hand-grasp as pledge תָּקַעְתָּ כַּפֶּיךָ לַזָּר Proverbs 6:1 (if) thou hast smitten thy palms (given a double hand-grasp), for another (so De; || עָרַבְתָּ לְרֵעֶ֑ךָ); so absolute תקע כף Proverbs 17:18; Proverbs 22:26 (compare תקע ליד Job 17:3).
(4) often of hand spread out in prayer, as sign of longing to receive, with אֶל־ פָּרַשׂ Exodus 9:29, 33 (J), 1 Kings 8:38 = 2 Chronicles 6:29, etc. (see יד Psalm 143:6; Lamentations 1:17 and יָד 1d, above; also פרשׂ, נשׂא, שׁטח).
†(5) שׂים כַּף לְפֶה, in respectful silence, Job 29:9.
†(6) figurative נַפְשִׁי וָאָשִׂימָה בְכַפִּי Judges 12:3 = I have taken my life in my hand (i.e. hazarded it), so 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 28:21; Job 13:14 and (without verb) Psalm 119:109.
†(7) נִקְיֹן כ׳ Genesis 20:5 cleanness of palms is figurative for purity of act, compare Psalm 26:6, also Job 9:30; Job 22:30; Psalm 24:4; Psalm 73:13; conversely, בְּכַפָּ֑י (לֹא)חָמָס Job 16:17; 1 Chronicles 12:18; Isaiah 59:6; Jonah 3:8, compare Isaiah 59:3 (so ידים Isaiah 1:15), Job 31:7; Psalm 7:4. — In many cases כַּף is not to be distinguished from יָד; so in phrase יְגִיעַ כ׳ toil of the hands Genesis 31:42; Haggai 1:11; Job 10:3; Psalm 128:2; כ׳ פֹּצַל Psalm 9:17, חֵפֶץ כ׳ Proverbs 31:13; תְּבוּנוֺת כ׳ Psalm 78:72, כ׳ פְּרִי Proverbs 31:16†; compare Micah 7:3.
†2. = power (i.e. grasp) of any one, נתן בכף Judges 6:13 = deliver into the power of, so Jeremiah 12:7, compare בּוֺא בכף Proverbs 6:3; usually הוֺשִׁיעַ, פָּדָה, הִצִּיל etc., with מִכַּף = out of the power of Judges 6:14; 1 Samuel 4:3; 2 Samuel 14:16; 2 Samuel 19:10 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 22:1 (twice in verse) = Psalm 18:1 (title), 2 Kings 16:7 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 20:6 = Isaiah 38:6; Micah 4:10; Jeremiah 15:21; 2 Chronicles 30:6; 32:11; Ezra 8:31; Psalm 71:4 (compare יָד 5g above).
†3. כַּף רַגְלָהּ, etc., = sole of foot, Genesis 8:9 (J), Joshua 3:13; Joshua 4:18 (both J E), 1 Kings 5:17; 2 Kings 19:24 = Isaiah 37:25; Deuteronomy 11:24; Deuteronomy 28:56, 65; Joshua 1:3 (D) Ezekiel 43:7; Malachi 3:21; קָדְקֳדוֺמִכַּף רַגְלוֺ וְעַד 2 Samuel 14:25; Job 2:7, compare Isaiah 1:6 (figurative); ר׳ מִדְרַךְ כ׳ Deuteronomy 2:5 treading-place for the sole of a foot; of the cherubim Ezekiel 1:7, of a calf, (in simile) Ezekiel 1:7., (according to MT; compare however Co).
4. of various hollow, bending or bent objects: —
†a. hollow (i.e. socket), of the thigh-joint, יָרֵךְ כ׳ Genesis 32:26 (twice in verse); Genesis 32:33 (twice in verse).
†c. hollow of sling, 1 Samuel 25:29.
†d. תְּמָרִיס כַּפּוֹת Leviticus 23:40hand-shaped branches (or fronds) of palm-trees.
e. הַמַּנְעוּל כַּפּוֹת Songs 5:5 the (bent) handles of the bolt.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:9; 20:5; 20:5; 31:42; 32:26; 40:11; 40:11; 40:11; 40:21

Exodus

4:4; 9:29; 9:33; 25:29; 25:29; 29:24; 33:22; 33:23; 37:16; 37:16

Leviticus

2:2; 5:12; 6:8; 8:27; 9:17; 11:27; 14:15; 14:16; 14:17; 14:18; 14:26; 14:27; 14:28; 23:40

Numbers

4:7; 5:7; 7; 7:14; 24:10; 24:10

Deuteronomy

2:5; 11:24; 25:12; 28:56; 28:65

Joshua

1:3; 3:13; 4:18

Judges

6:13; 6:14; 12:3; 12:3

1 Samuel

4:3; 5:4; 19:5; 25:29; 28:21

2 Samuel

14:16; 14:25; 19:10; 22:1

1 Kings

5:17; 7:50; 8:38; 8:54; 17:12

2 Kings

4:34; 9:35; 9:35; 11:12; 11:12; 16:7; 19:24; 20:6; 25:14

1 Chronicles

12:18

2 Chronicles

4:22; 6:29; 24:14; 30:6; 32:11

Ezra

8:31

Job

2:7; 9:30; 10:3; 13:14; 13:21; 16:17; 17:3; 22:30; 27:23; 27:23; 29:9; 29:9; 31:7; 36:32

Psalms

7:4; 9:17; 18:1; 24:4; 26:6; 47:2; 71:4; 73:13; 78:72; 98:8; 119:109; 128:2; 129:7; 139:5; 143:6

Proverbs

6:1; 6:3; 17:18; 22:26; 31:13; 31:16; 31:19

Ecclesiastes

4:6

Song of Songs

5:5

Isaiah

1:6; 1:15; 37:25; 38:6; 49:16; 55:12; 59:3; 59:6; 59:6

Jeremiah

12:7; 15:21; 52:18; 52:19

Lamentations

1:17

Ezekiel

1:7; 1:7; 6:11; 21:16; 21:19; 21:22; 22:13; 25:6; 29:7; 29:7; 29:7; 29:7; 29:7; 43:7

Daniel

10:10

Jonah

3:8

Micah

4:10; 7:3

Nahum

3:19

Haggai

1:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3709 matches the Hebrew כַּף (kap̄),
which occurs 195 times in 180 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 4 (Job 11:13–Isa 49:16)

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:13 -

“If you would set your heart right

And spread out your hand H3709 to Him,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:14 -

“Why should I take my flesh in my teeth

And put my life in my [fn]hands H3709?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:21 -

Move Your [fn]hand H3709 far from me,

And let not the dread of You terrify me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:17 -

Why?—because there is no violence in my hands H3709,

And my prayer is pure.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:30 -

“He will provide escape for one who is not innocent,

And he will escape through the cleanness of your hands H3709.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:23 -

Men will clap their hands H3709 at him

And will hiss him from his place.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:9 -

“The princes stopped talking

And put their hands H3709 on their mouths;

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:7 -

“If my step has turned from the way,

Or my heart [fn]followed my eyes,

Or if any spot has stuck to my hands H3709,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:32 -

“He covers His hands H3709 with the [fn]lightning,

And commands it to strike the mark.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:8 -

“Place your hand H3709 on it;

Remember the battle; [fn]you will not do that again!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:3 -

O Yahweh my God, if I have done this,

If there is injustice in my hands H3709,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:16 -

Yahweh has made Himself known;

He has executed judgment.

In the work of his own hands H3709 the wicked is snared. [fn]Higgaion [fn]Selah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:1 -

For the choir director. Of the servant of Yahweh, of David, [fn]who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

He said, “I love You, O Yahweh, my strength.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4 -

He who has innocent hands H3709 and a pure heart,

Who has not lifted up his soul [fn]to worthlessness

And has not sworn deceitfully.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:6 -

I shall wash my hands H3709 in innocence,

So I will go around Your altar, O Yahweh,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:20 -

If we had forgotten the name of our God

Or spread our [fn]hands H3709 to a strange god,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:1 -

For the choir director. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.

O clap your hands H3709, all peoples;

Make a loud shout to God with the sound of a shout of [fn]joy.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:4 -

Thus I will bless You as long as I live;

I will lift up my hands H3709 in Your name.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:4 -

Protect me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,

Out of the [fn]grasp H3709 of the unrighteous and ruthless man,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:13 -

Surely in vain I have [fn]kept my heart pure

And washed my hands H3709 in innocence;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:72 -

So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart,

And led them with his skillful hands H3709.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:6 -

“I [fn]relieved his shoulder of the burden,

His hands H3709 were freed from the [fn]basket.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:9 -

My eye has wasted away because of affliction;

I have called upon You every day, O Yahweh;

I have spread out my [fn]hands H3709 to You.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:12 -

On their hands H3709 they will bear you up,

Lest you strike your foot against a stone.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:8 -

Let the rivers clap their hands H3709,

Let the mountains sing together for joy

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:48 -

And I shall lift up my hands H3709 to Your commandments,

Which I love;

And I will muse on Your statutes.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:109 -

My soul is continually [fn]in my hand H3709,

Yet I do not forget Your law.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:2 -

When you shall eat of the [fn]fruit of the labor of your hands H3709,

How blessed will you be and how well will it be for you.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:7 -

With which the reaper does not fill his [fn]hand H3709,

Nor the binder of sheaves the fold of his garment;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:5 -

You have enclosed me behind and before,

And You have put Your hand H3709 upon me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:2 -

May my prayer be established as incense before You;

The lifting up of my hands H3709 as the evening offering.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:1 -

My son, if you have become a guarantor for your neighbor,

Have struck your [fn]hands H3709 in pledge for a stranger,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:3 -

Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself;

Since you have come into the [fn]hand H3709 of your neighbor,

Go, humble yourself, and badger your neighbor.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:4 -

Poor is he who works with a slack [fn]hand H3709,

But the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:18 -

A man lacking a heart of wisdom strikes his [fn]hands H3709 in pledge

And becomes guarantor in the presence of his neighbor.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:26 -

Do not be among those who strike [fn]hands H3709 in pledge,

Among those who become guarantors for debts.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:13 -

Daleth

She searches for wool and flax

And works with her [fn]hands H3709 [fn]in delight.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:16 -

Zayin

She makes plans for a field and buys it;

From the fruit of her [fn]hands H3709 she plants a vineyard.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:19 -

Yodh

She stretches out her hands to the distaff,

And her [fn]hands H3709 hold fast the spindle.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:20 -

Kaph

She [fn]extends her hand H3709 to the poor,

And she stretches out her hands to the needy.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6 - One hand H3709 full of rest is better than two fists full of labor and striving after wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:5 -

“I arose to open to my beloved;

And my hands dripped with myrrh,

And my fingers with [fn]liquid myrrh,

On the handles H3709 of the lock.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:6 -

From the sole H3709 of the foot even to the head

There is nothing sound in it,

Only bruises, wounds, and raw wounds,

Not pressed out, not bandaged,

Not softened with oil.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:15 -

“So when you spread out your hands H3709 in prayer,

I will hide My eyes from you;

Indeed, even though you multiply prayers,

I will not listen.

Your hands are full of blood.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:4 -

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,

Which is at the head of the [fn]fertile valley,

Will be like the first-ripe fig prior to summer,

Which [fn]one sees,

And [fn]as soon as it is in his [fn]hand H3709,

He swallows it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:15 -

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly;

He who rejects greedy gain of [fn]oppression,

And shakes his hands H3709 so that they hold no bribe;

He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed

And shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:6 - “Behold, you trust in the staff of this crushed reed, even on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his [fn]hand H3709 and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25 -

‘I dug wells and drank waters,

And with the sole H3709 of my feet I dried up

All the rivers of [fn]Egypt.’

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:6 - “And I will deliver you and this city from the hand H3709 of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:16 -

“Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms H3709 of My hands;

Your walls are continually before Me.


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