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# אֶכֶף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H405

**pressure** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pressure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/405/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶ֫כֶף: n.m. pressure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/405/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. pressure, sf. אַכְפִּי Jb 33:7 (𝔊 al. rd. כַּפִּי cf. 13:21, but cf. Di).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: pressure (1).

## In the verses

[Job 33:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.7/#tree)

הִנֵּ֣ה אֵ֭מָתִי לֹ֣א תְבַעֲתֶ֑ךָּ וְ֝אַכְפִּ֗י עָלֶ֥יךָ לֹא־יִכְבָּֽד׃

*Word for word:* here! of.me dread not it will.terrify.you and pressure my on you not it.will.be.heavy

*JPS 1917:* Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my pressure be heavy upon thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/405.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/405/): 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).