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# כְּפַת

Biblical Aramaic

**bind** — used 4 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

bind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e4_5b7_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּפַת: vb. bind Peʿîl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e4_5b7_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bind (𝔗 id.; NH כָּפַת; Syriac ܟܦܰܬ form knots, ܟܪܳܐ twist into a knot, Arabic كَفَتَ draw together, Assyrian \[kapâtu\] ii. bring together);—Peʿîl Pf. 3 mpl. כְּפִ֫תוּ (WCG 224) Dn 3:21 they were bound. bind: Inf. לְכַפָתָה Dn 3:20 (ל acc. pers.); Pt. pass. pl. מְכַפִּתִין bound v 23, 24.

### Jastrow 1903

כְּפַת: put in stocks knotting to produce knots, to mature fruits [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e4_5b7_5ea/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. Y. Gen. XXII, 9. Targ. Ps. CXVIII, 27; a. e.—Part. pass. pl. כְּפוּתִין (hebr.) put in stocks. Targ. Y. II, Num. XXI, 29.—Tam. 31ᵇ דכַפְתֵיה בשיראי if one tied the sacrifice (hands and feet) with silk ropes. B. Bath. 167ᵃ כפתיה ואודי he put him in stocks (or in prison), and he confessed. Gitt. 14ᵃ דכַפְתֵי ושקלי וכ׳ who use force (have him arrested) and collect their due immediately (allowing no time). Y. Gitt. I, end, 43ᵈ; Y. Kidd. III, 64ᵃ כַּפְתוּן ואפקון מיניה they put him in stocks and forced him to pay; a. e.—\[Gitt. 62ᵃ מִכְפַּת וכ׳, v. אִכְפַּת.\] same. Targ. Cant. VII, 5.—Y. Kil. IX, end, 32ᵈ דהוא מְכַפֵּת ביה he (the weaver) uses it for tying (or knotting, v. infra). (v. P. Sm. 1803) to produce knots, to mature fruits. Targ. O. Num. XVII, 23 ed. Berl. (Var. כָּפֵית, כְּפֵית; h. text גמל); cmp כַּפְתּוֹר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bound (2); bind (1); they were bound (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 3:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.23/#tree)

וְגֻבְרַיָּ֤א אִלֵּךְ֙ תְּלָ֣תֵּה֔וֹן שַׁדְרַ֥ךְ מֵישַׁ֖ךְ וַעֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ עֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ נְפַ֛לוּ לְגֽוֹא־אַתּוּן־נוּרָ֥א יָֽקִדְתָּ֖א מְכַפְּתִֽין׃פ

*Word for word:* and the men these three of.them Shadrach Meshach and.Abednego and.Abednego they.fell to the.midst of.the.furnace of the.fire (the) burning bound

*JPS 1917:* And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

[Daniel 3:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.21/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֜יִן גֻּבְרַיָּ֣א אִלֵּ֗ךְ כְּפִ֙תוּ֙ בְּסַרְבָּלֵיהוֹן֙ פַּטְּשֵׁיה֔וֹןוְכַרְבְּלָתְה֖וֹן וּלְבֻשֵׁיה֑וֹן וּרְמִ֕יו לְגֽוֹא־אַתּ֥וּן נוּרָ֖א יָקִֽדְתָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* then the men these they.were.bound in mantles their trousers their and caps their and clothes their and they.were.thrown to the.midst of.the.furnace of the.fire (the) burning

*JPS 1917:* Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, and their robes, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e4_5b7_5ea.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e4_5b7_5ea/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).