כֵּף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3710

rock — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

rock tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֵּף: rock tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.[m.] rock (Assyrian kaæpu DlHWB 346; Aramaic כֵּיפָא, ܟܻܐܦܳܐ; perhaps Aramaic loan-word in Heb.; √ dub.);—only pl. כֵּפִים Je 4:29 as place of refuge; Jb 30:6 as dwelling-place.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: rocks (2).

In the verses

Job 30:6 · tree →

בַּעֲר֣וּץ נְחָלִ֣ים לִשְׁכֹּ֑ן חֹרֵ֖י עָפָ֣ר וְכֵפִֽים׃

Word for word: on.[the] slope of.wadis to dwell holes of.[the].ground and rocks

JPS 1917: In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Jeremiah 4:29 · tree →

מִקּ֨וֹל פָּרָ֜שׁ וְרֹ֣מֵה קֶ֗שֶׁת בֹּרַ֙חַת֙ כָּל־הָעִ֔יר בָּ֚אוּ בֶּעָבִ֔ים וּבַכֵּפִ֖ים עָל֑וּ כָּל־הָעִ֣יר עֲזוּבָ֔ה וְאֵין־יוֹשֵׁ֥ב בָּהֵ֖ן אִֽישׁ׃

Word for word: from.[the] sound of.a.horseman and a.shooter of.a.bow [is].fleeing every (the) city people.will.go in the thickets and on the rocks people.will.go.up every (the) city [is].abandoned and there.[is].not dwelling in them anyone

JPS 1917: For the noise of the horsemen and bowmen the whole city fleeth; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks; every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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