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title: כֵּף — rock · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כֵּף (3710), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: rock. BDB 1906: rock. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כֵּף

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«כֵּף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **rock** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 3710 · **BDB:** כֵּף

### Glosses

rocks (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

rock [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3710/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

rock [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3710/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] rock (Assyrian kaæpu DlHWB 346; Aramaic כֵּיפָא, ܟܻܐܦܳܐ; perhaps Aramaic loan-word in Heb.; √ dub.);—only pl. כֵּפִים Je 4:29 as place of refuge; Jb 30:6 as dwelling-place.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כֵּף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3710/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 30:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.6/)

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בַּעֲר֣וּץ נְחָלִ֣ים לִשְׁכֹּ֑ן חֹרֵ֖י עָפָ֣ר וְכֵפִֽים׃

*Word for word:* on.\[the\] slope of.wadis to dwell holes of.\[the\].ground and rocks

*JPS 1917:* In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

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[Jeremiah 4:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.29/)

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מִקּ֨וֹל פָּרָ֜שׁ וְרֹ֣מֵה קֶ֗שֶׁת בֹּרַ֙חַת֙ כָּל־הָעִ֔יר בָּ֚אוּ בֶּעָבִ֔ים וּבַכֵּפִ֖ים עָל֑וּ כָּל־הָעִ֣יר עֲזוּבָ֔ה וְאֵין־יוֹשֵׁ֥ב בָּהֵ֖ן אִֽישׁ׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] sound of.a.horseman and a.shooter of.a.bow \[is\].fleeing every (the) city people.will.go in the thickets and on the rocks people.will.go.up every (the) city \[is\].abandoned and there.\[is\].not dwelling in them anyone

*JPS 1917:* For the noise of the horsemen and bowmen the whole city fleeth; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks; every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.

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