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# 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3710/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֵּף: rock [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3710/#m2)

**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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.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.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3710.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3710/): 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).