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# כָּפַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3728

**make bent** — 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

make bent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3728/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּפַשׁ: vb. Hiph. make bent, press bend together [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3728/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Hiph. make bent, press or bend together (NH Hiph. id.i כָּפַשׁ furnish a vessel with a bent rim, כּוֹפֶשׁ a broad-rimmed vessel; Arabic كَفِسَ have bent or crooked feet; Tel Am. kapâšu, sole of foot DlHWB 348 (doubtfully), but inf. from כבשׁ according to WklTelAm.Letters, Vocab.);— Pf. 3 ms. sf. הִכְפִּישַׁנִי בָּאֵפֶר La 3:16 he made me cower in the ashes.

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.16/#tree)

וַיַּגְרֵ֤ס בֶּֽחָצָץ֙ שִׁנָּ֔י הִכְפִּישַׁ֖נִי בָּאֵֽפֶר׃

*Word for word:* and he.has.broken with (the) gravel teeth my he has.made.me.cower in (the) ash\[es\]

*JPS 1917:* He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3728.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3728/): 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).