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# לָפַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3943

**twist** — 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

twist [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3943/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָפַת: vb. twist, turn, grasp with twisting motion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3943/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. twist, turn, grasp with a twisting motion (Arabic لَفَتَ twist, wring; Assyrian lapâtu, overthrow, DlHWB 382);— Impf. וַיִּלְפֹּת Ju 16:29 sq. acc., Samson grasped the two middle columns. Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּלָּפֵת Ru 3:8 the man started up and twisted himself; 3 mpl. יִלָּֽפְתוּ Jb 6:18 the paths of their way \[i.e. of the streams\] turn aside (twist, wind, with lessening force), so AV Hi De Da Bu \> Ew Ol Di Siegf Du, who read Qal יִלְפְּתוּ or Pi. יְלַפְּתוּ, making ארחות, = caravans, subj.

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 (2 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: he twisted (2); they twist (1).

## In the verses

[Job 6:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.18/#tree)

יִ֭לָּ֣פְתוּ אָרְח֣וֹת דַּרְכָּ֑ם יַעֲל֖וּ בַתֹּ֣הוּ וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* they.twist the.paths their.way their they.go.up in the wasteland and they.perish

*JPS 1917:* The paths of their way do wind, they go up into the waste, and are lost.

[Ruth 3:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.3.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.3.8/#tree)

וַיְהִי֙ בַּחֲצִ֣י הַלַּ֔יְלָה וַיֶּחֱרַ֥ד הָאִ֖ישׁ וַיִּלָּפֵ֑ת וְהִנֵּ֣ה אִשָּׁ֔ה שֹׁכֶ֖בֶת מַרְגְּלֹתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and it.was in the.middle of the.night and he.trembled the man and he.twisted and there! a.woman \[was\].lying.down feet his

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was startled, and turned himself; and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3943.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3943/): 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).