Lexical Summary kaphah: to subdue Original Word: כָּפָהTransliteration: kaphah Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-faw') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to subdue Meaning: to bend, to tame, subdue Strong's Concordance pacify A primitive root; properly, to bend, i.e. (figuratively) to tame or subdue -- pacify. Brown-Driver-Briggs H3711. kaphah [כָּפָה] verb probably subdue (Late Hebrew overturn, hold under, compel; Aramaic כְּפָא, id.; incline (as face to ground), overturn; Assyrian kipû perhaps id., DlHWB 346; compare Arabic overturn, turn back); — only Qal Imperfect יִכְמֶּהאָֿ֑ף בַּסֵּתֶר מַתָּן Proverbs 21:14 a gift in secret subdueth anger (so Thes Rob-Ges; Ew beugt: Fl De averteth, from the Arabic, is more remote; ᵐ5 ἀνατρέπει, compare Late Hebrew). כִּמָּה see below כפף. |
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