Lexicon kaphah: to subdue Original Word: כָּפָהPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: kaphah Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-faw') Short Definition: subdues NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto subdue NASB Translationsubdues (1).
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., Dl HWB 346; compare Arabic  overturn, turn back); — only Qal Imperfect מַתָּן בַּסֵּתֶר יִכְמֶּהאָֿ֑ף Proverbs 21:14 a gift in secret subdueth anger (so Thes Rob-Ges; Ew beugt: Fl De averteth, from the Arabic, is more remote; ᵐ5 ἀνατρέπει, compare Late Hebrew). כִּמָּה see below כפף.
Strong's pacify A primitive root; properly, to bend, i.e. (figuratively) to tame or subdue -- pacify. |
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