Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #6971 - קוֹף qoph (an ape)

Original Word:	קוֹף
Transliteration:	qoph
Definition:	an ape
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(kofe)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

ape

Or qoph {kofe}; probably of foreign origin; a monkey -- ape.

Englishman's Concordance

1) ape
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: probably of foreign origin
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2000

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[קוֺף] noun [masculine]ape, so Vrss, ᵐ5πίθηκοι (omitted by ᵐ5^B in Kings) (foreign word; probably=Sanskrit kapi, id.; Egyptian as loan-word gôfë WMM^As.u.Eur.95, gi'f Erman^{ZMG xlvi (1892), 121}; Greek κῆβος, κῆπος is of Egyptian origin according to Lewy^{Fremdw. 6}); — plural קֹפִים1 Kings 10:22=קוֺפִים2Chronicles 9:21, brought to Solomon [from southeast] by Phoenician fleet; compare Arabic proverb 'donum regionis Jemen simiae sunt,' Frey^{Provv.iii.3160}.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 6971. קוֹפִים (qoph) — 2 Occurrences

1 Kings 10:22
HEB:וָכֶ֔סֶף שֶׁנְהַבִּ֥ים וְקֹפִ֖ים וְתֻכִּיִּֽים׃
NAS: ivory and apes and peacocks.
KJV: ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
INT: and silver ivory and apes and peacocks

2 Chronicles 9:21
HEB:וָכֶ֔סֶף שֶׁנְהַבִּ֥ים וְקוֹפִ֖ים וְתוּכִּיִּֽים׃ פ
NAS: ivory and apes and peacocks.
KJV: ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
INT: and silver ivory and apes and peacocks

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