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title: כָּפָה — subdue · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּפָה (3711), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: subdue. BDB 1906: vb. subdue. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּפָה

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«כָּפָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **subdue** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3711 · **BDB:** כָּפָה

### Glosses

it.subdues (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

subdue [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3711/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. subdue [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3711/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. prob. subdue (NH overturn, hold under, compel; Aramaic כְּפָא, id.; ܟܦܳܐ incline (as face to ground), overturn; Assyrian Kipû perhaps id., DlHWB 346; cf. Arabic كَفَأَ overturn, turn back);—only Impf. מַתָּן בַּסֵּתֶר יִכְפֶּה־אָ֑ף Pr 21:14 a gift in secret subdueth anger (so Thes RobGes; Ew beugt: Fl De averteth, from the Arabic, is more remote; 𝔊 ἀνατρέπει, cf. NH).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 «כָּפָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3711/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 21:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.14/)

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מַתָּ֣ן בַּ֭סֵּתֶר יִכְפֶּה־אָ֑ף וְשֹׁ֥חַד בַּ֝חֵ֗ק חֵמָ֥ה עַזָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.gift in (the) secrecy it.subdues anger and a.bribe in the bosom rage strong

*JPS 1917:* A gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a present in the bosom strong wrath.

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