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# כָּפִיס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3714

**rafter** — 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

rafter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3714/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּפִיס: n.m. rafter girder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3714/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. appar. (si vera l.) term. techn. for some beam in a house, perhaps rafter, or girder (NH id., Levy, Jastrow, but according to HoffmZAW ii. 1881, 71 it is changed from oblong block of wood (O. textual) to a building-stone, or brick in Mish.);—only Hb 2:11 for a stone out of the wall crieth out, וְכ׳ מֵעֵץ יַעֲנֶנָּה and a rafter out of the timber-work answereth it.

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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a rafter (1).

## In the verses

[Habakkuk 2:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.11/#tree)

כִּי־אֶ֖בֶן מִקִּ֣יר תִּזְעָ֑ק וְכָפִ֖יס מֵעֵ֥ץ יַעֲנֶֽנָּה׃פ

*Word for word:* (dm) a.stone from.\[the\] wall it.will.cry.out and a.rafter from.\[the\] wood(s) it will.answer.it

*JPS 1917:* For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3714.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3714/): 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).