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# קָפַץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7092

**draw together** — used 7 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

draw together [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7092/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָפַץ: vb. draw together, shut [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7092/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. draw together, shut (NH = BH; Arabic قَفَصَ collect, conjoin, tie; Syriac ܩܦܰܣ draw together, contract, withdraw (cf. NöM 47: ZMG xxxiii (1879), 516); 𝔗 קְפַץ hasten (double oneself up in running), Pi. hop, spring);— Pf. 3 ms. ק׳ ψ 77:10, etc.; Impf. 2 ms. תִּקְפֹּץ Dt 15:7; 3 mpl. יִקְפְּצוּ Is 52:15;—shut hand Dt 15:7 (c. מִן away from, so as not to lend; opp. פתח v 8); mouth, in astonishment Is 52:15, in abject silence Jb 5:16 ψ 107:42; fig. ק׳ רַחֲמָיו 77:10 shut up his compassion. Impf. 3 ms. יִקָּֽפְצוּן Jb 24:24 si vera l., they draw themselves together, of contraction in death (cf. Di Bu; Ol יִקָּֽבְצוּן are gathered in). Pt. מְקַפֵּץ עַל־הַגְּבָעוֹת Ct 2:8 springing (i.e. making repeated contractions of body, in taking leaps) upon the hills (‖ מְדַלֵּג).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 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: it shuts (2); \[he is\] bounding (1); has he shut off (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.42/#tree)

יִרְא֣וּ יְשָׁרִ֣ים וְיִשְׂמָ֑חוּ וְכָל־עַ֝וְלָ֗ה קָ֣פְצָה פִּֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* they.see upright.\[people\] and they.rejoice and all unrighteousness it.shuts mouth its

*JPS 1917:* The upright see it, and are glad; and all iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

[Psalms 77:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.10/#tree)

הֲשָׁכַ֣ח חַנּ֣וֹת אֵ֑ל אִם־קָפַ֥ץ בְּ֝אַ֗ף רַחֲמָ֥יו סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* has he.forgotten? to.have.compassion God or? has.he.shut.off in anger compassion(s) his Selah

*JPS 1917:* Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?' Selah

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7092.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7092/): 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).