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# כָּסַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3700

**long** — used 6 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

long [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3700/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּסַף: vb. long [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3700/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. long (for) (Arabic كَسَفَ be colourless, obscure, be eclipsed (of sun or moon); also be depressed in appearance BaES 61; mod. Arabic disappoint; refl. conjj. be disappointed, ashamed, v. SpiroVocab.; NH כסף Hiph. shew pallor, be pale, white; Qal be ashamed, long for, cf. Aramaic כְּסַף)— Impf. 2 ms. לְמַעֲשֵׂה יָדֶיךָ תִּכְסֹ֑ף Jb 14:15 for the work of thy hands thou wouldest long; 3 ms. כְּאַרְיֵה יִכְסוֹף לִטְרֹ֑ף ψ 17:12 like a lion that longeth to rend. Pf. 2 ms. + Inf. abs. נִכְסֹף נִכְסַפְתָּה לְבֵית אָבִיךָ Gn 31:30 thou didst long sorely for thy father’s house; Pf. 3 fs. נִכְסְפָה … נַפְשִׁי לְחַצְרוֹת י׳ ψ 84:4 my soul longeth … for the courts of י׳; Pf. 3 ms. הַגּוֹי לֹא נִכְלסָ֑ף Zp 2:1 very dub.; but perhaps (Ges Ew Hi Ke al.), O nation not turning pale, = not ashamed, cf. etym. supr.; We thinks whole v. corrupt.

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 (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: \[which\] it longs (1); ashamed (1); greatly (long) (1).

## In the verses

[Zephaniah 2:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.1/#tree)

הִֽתְקוֹשְׁשׁ֖וּ וָק֑וֹשּׁוּ הַגּ֖וֹי לֹ֥א נִכְסָֽף׃

*Word for word:* gather.yourselves.together and gather.together O nation not ashamed

*JPS 1917:* Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O shameless nation;

[Job 14:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.15/#tree)

תִּ֭קְרָא וְאָנֹכִ֣י אֶֽעֱנֶ֑ךָּ לְֽמַעֲשֵׂ֖ה יָדֶ֣יךָ תִכְסֹֽף׃

*Word for word:* you.will.call and I I will.answer.you for the.work your.hands your you.will.long

*JPS 1917:* Thou wouldest call, and I would answer Thee; Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of Thy hands.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3700.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3700/): 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).