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# כִּפָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3712

**branch** — used 3 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

branch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3712/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּפָּה²: n.f. branch, frond [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3712/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. branch, frond (prob. of palm-tree, cf. כַּף 4 d);—כ׳ Is 9:13; 19:15 fig. of nobles, rulers (both opp. אַגְמוֹן rush, i.e. high and low; ‖ רֹאשׁ וְזָנָב); c. sf. כִּפָּתוֹ Jb 15:32 (of wicked under fig. of palm-tree).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: palm branch (2); his palm (1).

## In the verses

[Job 15:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.32/#tree)

בְּֽלֹא־י֭וֹמוֹ תִּמָּלֵ֑א וְ֝כִפָּת֗וֹ לֹ֣א רַעֲנָֽנָה׃

*Word for word:* on not day his it.will.be.completed and his.palm branch not it.will.grow.luxuriant

*JPS 1917:* It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be leafy.

[Isaiah 9:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.13/#tree)

וַיַּכְרֵ֨ת יְהוָ֜ה מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֗ל רֹ֧אשׁ וְזָנָ֛ב כִּפָּ֥ה וְאַגְמ֖וֹן י֥וֹם אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.cut.off Yahweh from Israel head and tail palm.branch and bulrush day one

*JPS 1917:* Therefore the LORD doth cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3712.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3712/): 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).