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hebrew #3711 - כָּפָה kaphah (to subdue)


Original Word:כָּפָה
Transliteration: kaphah
Definition:to subdue
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(kaw-faw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

pacify

A primitive root; properly, to bend, i.e. (figuratively) to tame or subdue -- pacify.


Englishman's Concordance

1) (Qal) to sooth, subdue, pacify
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1018

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[כָּפָה] verb probably subdue (Late Hebrew overturn, hold under, compel; Aramaic כְּפָא, id.; incline (as face to ground), overturn; Assyrian kipû perhaps id., DlHWB 346; compare Arabic overturn, turn back); — only

QalImperfectמַתָּן בַּסֵּתֶר יִכְמֶּהאָֿ֑ףProverbs 21:14a gift in secret subdueth anger (so Thes Rob-Ges; Ew beugt: Fl De averteth, from the Arabic, is more remote; ᵐ5ἀνατρέπει, compare Late Hebrew).

כִּמָּה see below כפף.


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3711. כָּפָה (kaphah) — 1 Occurrence

Proverbs 21:14
HEB:מַתָּ֣ן בַּ֭סֵּתֶר יִכְפֶּה־ אָ֑ף וְשֹׁ֥חַד
NAS: in secret subdues anger,
KJV: in secret pacifieth anger:
INT: A gift secret subdues anger bribe

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