לָפַת
Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3943
Meaning
OpenScriptures lexical index
twist tree →
Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906
לָפַת: vb. twist, turn, grasp with twisting motion tree →
The whole BDB entry
vb. twist, turn, grasp with a twisting motion (Arabic لَفَتَ twist, wring; Assyrian lapâtu, overthrow, DlHWB 382);— Impf. וַיִּלְפֹּת Ju 16:29 sq. acc., Samson grasped the two middle columns. Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּלָּפֵת Ru 3:8 the man started up and twisted himself; 3 mpl. יִלָּֽפְתוּ Jb 6:18 the paths of their way [i.e. of the streams] turn aside (twist, wind, with lessening force), so AV Hi De Da Bu > Ew Ol Di Siegf Du, who read Qal יִלְפְּתוּ or Pi. יְלַפְּתוּ, making ארחות, = caravans, subj.
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)
Glosses
MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he twisted (2); they twist (1).
In the verses
יִ֭לָּ֣פְתוּ אָרְח֣וֹת דַּרְכָּ֑ם יַעֲל֖וּ בַתֹּ֣הוּ וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ׃
Word for word: they.twist the.paths their.way their they.go.up in the wasteland and they.perish
JPS 1917: The paths of their way do wind, they go up into the waste, and are lost.
וַיְהִי֙ בַּחֲצִ֣י הַלַּ֔יְלָה וַיֶּחֱרַ֥ד הָאִ֖ישׁ וַיִּלָּפֵ֑ת וְהִנֵּ֣ה אִשָּׁ֔ה שֹׁכֶ֖בֶת מַרְגְּלֹתָֽיו׃
Word for word: and it.was in the.middle of the.night and he.trembled the man and he.twisted and there! a.woman [was].lying.down feet his
JPS 1917: And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was startled, and turned himself; and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
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