Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #3719 - כָּפַן kaphan

Original Word:	כָּפַן
Transliteration:	kaphan
Phonetic Spelling:	(kaw-fan')
Definition:	to be hungry, to hunger
Part of Speech:	Verb
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

bend

A primitive root; to bend -- bend.

Englishman's Concordance

1) (Qal) to hunger, be hungry, hungrily desire
2) (CLBL) to twist, bend
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1020

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[כָּפַן] verbbe hungry, hunger, perhaps also hungrily desire (Aramaic loan-word; compare Aramaic כְּפֵין, כְּפַן,

be hungry; Arabic

is spin wool, wrap a corpse in the shroud); — only

QalPerfect3feminine singular כָּֽפְנָה עַלEzekiel 17:7 (si vera lectio) this vine stretched its roots hungrily towards ׅ "" ( שִׁלְּחָה לְ.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3719. כָּפַן (kaphan) — 1 Occurrence
Ezekiel 17:7
HEB:הַגֶּ֨פֶן הַזֹּ֜את כָּֽפְנָ֧ה שָׁרֳשֶׁ֣יהָ עָלָ֗יו
NAS: this vine bent its roots toward
KJV: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots
INT: vine likewise bent roots toward

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