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title: כָּסַף — long · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּסַף (3700), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: long. BDB 1906: vb. long. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּסַף

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«כָּסַף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **long** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 6 times · **Key:** 3700 · **BDB:** כָּסַף

### Glosses

\[which\].it.longs (1); ashamed (1); greatly.(long) (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

long [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3700/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. long [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3700/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. long (for) (Arabic كَسَفَ be colourless, obscure, be eclipsed (of sun or moon); also be depressed in appearance BaES 61; mod. Arabic disappoint; refl. conjj. be disappointed, ashamed, v. SpiroVocab.; NH כסף Hiph. shew pallor, be pale, white; Qal be ashamed, long for, cf. Aramaic כְּסַף)— Impf. 2 ms. לְמַעֲשֵׂה יָדֶיךָ תִּכְסֹ֑ף Jb 14:15 for the work of thy hands thou wouldest long; 3 ms. כְּאַרְיֵה יִכְסוֹף לִטְרֹ֑ף ψ 17:12 like a lion that longeth to rend. Pf. 2 ms. + Inf. abs. נִכְסֹף נִכְסַפְתָּה לְבֵית אָבִיךָ Gn 31:30 thou didst long sorely for thy father’s house; Pf. 3 fs. נִכְסְפָה … נַפְשִׁי לְחַצְרוֹת י׳ ψ 84:4 my soul longeth … for the courts of י׳; Pf. 3 ms. הַגּוֹי לֹא נִכְלסָ֑ף Zp 2:1 very dub.; but perhaps (Ges Ew Hi Ke al.), O nation not turning pale, = not ashamed, cf. etym. supr.; We thinks whole v. corrupt.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּסַף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3700/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Zephaniah 2:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.1/)

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הִֽתְקוֹשְׁשׁ֖וּ וָק֑וֹשּׁוּ הַגּ֖וֹי לֹ֥א נִכְסָֽף׃

*Word for word:* gather.yourselves.together and gather.together O nation not ashamed

*JPS 1917:* Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O shameless nation;

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[Job 14:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.15/)

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תִּ֭קְרָא וְאָנֹכִ֣י אֶֽעֱנֶ֑ךָּ לְֽמַעֲשֵׂ֖ה יָדֶ֣יךָ תִכְסֹֽף׃

*Word for word:* you.will.call and I I will.answer.you for the.work your.hands your you.will.long

*JPS 1917:* Thou wouldest call, and I would answer Thee; Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of Thy hands.

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