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# קָפָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7087

**thicken** — 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

thicken [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7087/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָפָא: vb. thicken, condense, congeal Niph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7087/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. thicken, condense, congeal (cf. Syriac ܩܦܳܐ heap up, collect);— Pf. 3 pl. קָֽפְאוּ תְהֹמֹת Ex 15:8 (song) the deeps were condensed, became firm walls; Impf. יקפאון Zc 14:6 Kt (i.e. יִקְפָּא֑וּן \[poss. is also יִקָּפֵא֑וּן Niph.\]) Thes al. glorious(?) ones \[stars\] shall contract (dwindle), but read Qr וְקִפָּאוֹן v. foll. Pt. הַקֹּפְאִים עַל־שִׁמְרֵיהֶם Zp 1:12 the men who are thickening on their lees (easy-going men, under figure of undisturbed wine). Impf. 2 ms. sf. תַּקְפִּיאֵנִי Jb 10:10 didst thou not curdle me like cheese (of formation of foetus)?

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: are\] thickening (1); did (1); they congealed (1).

## In the verses

[Job 10:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.10/#tree)

הֲלֹ֣א כֶ֭חָלָב תַּתִּיכֵ֑נִי וְ֝כַגְּבִנָּ֗ה תַּקְפִּיאֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* ? not like (the) milk did you.pour.me.out and like (the) cheese did you.curdle.me?

*JPS 1917:* Hast Thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

[Exodus 15:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.8/#tree)

וּבְר֤וּחַ אַפֶּ֙יךָ֙ נֶ֣עֶרְמוּ מַ֔יִם נִצְּב֥וּ כְמוֹ־נֵ֖ד נֹזְלִ֑ים קָֽפְא֥וּ תְהֹמֹ֖ת בְּלֶב־יָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and by the.breath your.nostrils your they.were.piled.up \[the\].waters they.stood.up like a.heap streams they.congealed the.deeps in.\[the\] heart of.\[the\].sea

*JPS 1917:* And with the blast of Thy nostrils the waters were piled up — the floods stood upright as a heap; the deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7087.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7087/): 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).