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# כָּפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3711

**subdue** — 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

subdue [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3711/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּפָה: vb. subdue [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3711/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. prob. subdue (NH overturn, hold under, compel; Aramaic כְּפָא, id.; ܟܦܳܐ incline (as face to ground), overturn; Assyrian Kipû perhaps id., DlHWB 346; cf. Arabic كَفَأَ overturn, turn back);—only Impf. מַתָּן בַּסֵּתֶר יִכְפֶּה־אָ֑ף Pr 21:14 a gift in secret subdueth anger (so Thes RobGes; Ew beugt: Fl De averteth, from the Arabic, is more remote; 𝔊 ἀνατρέπει, cf. NH).

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 21:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.14/#tree)

מַתָּ֣ן בַּ֭סֵּתֶר יִכְפֶּה־אָ֑ף וְשֹׁ֥חַד בַּ֝חֵ֗ק חֵמָ֥ה עַזָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.gift in (the) secrecy it.subdues anger and a.bribe in the bosom rage strong

*JPS 1917:* A gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a present in the bosom strong wrath.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3711.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3711/): 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).