Lexicon kaphis: a rafter, girder Original Word: כָּפִיסPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: kaphis Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-fece') Short Definition: rafter NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitiona rafter, girder NASB Translationrafter (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs כָּפִיס noun masculine apparently (si vera lectio) technical term for some beam in a house, perhaps rafter, or girder (Late Hebrew id., Levy, Jastrow, but according to Hoffm ZAW ii. 1881, 71 it is changed from oblong block of wood (O.T.) to a building-stone, or brick in Mishna); — only Habakkuk 2:11 for a stone out of the wall crieth out, מֵעֵץ יַעֲנֶנָּה ׳וְכ and a rafter out of the timber-work answereth it. Strong's beam From an unused root meaning to connect; a girder -- beam. |
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