קָפַץ
qa.phats
“to gather”
Definition
to draw together, i.e. close; by implication, to leap (by contracting the limbs); specifically, to die (from gathering up the feet)
a primitive root;
- to draw together, close, shut, shut up, stop up 1a) (Qal) to shut 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to draw oneself together (of death) 1b2) to be shut up to death 1c) (Piel) springing, skipping (participle)
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Grammar & Morphology
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
קָפַץ appears 6 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
so He will sprinkle many nations.Kings will shut their mouths because of Him.For they will see what they have not been told,and they will understand what they have not heard.
They are exalted for a moment,then they are gone;they are brought low and gathered up like all others;they are cut off like heads of grain.
So the poor have hope,and injustice shuts its mouth.
The upright see and rejoice,and all iniquity shuts its mouth.
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