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title: כָּפִיס — rafter · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּפִיס (3714), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: rafter. BDB 1906: n.m. rafter girder. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּפִיס

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«כָּפִיס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **rafter** — 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:** 3714 · **BDB:** כָּפִיס

### Glosses

a.rafter (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

rafter [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3714/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. rafter girder [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3714/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. appar. (si vera l.) term. techn. for some beam in a house, perhaps rafter, or girder (NH id., Levy, Jastrow, but according to HoffmZAW ii. 1881, 71 it is changed from oblong block of wood (O. textual) to a building-stone, or brick in Mish.);—only Hb 2:11 for a stone out of the wall crieth out, וְכ׳ מֵעֵץ יַעֲנֶנָּה and a rafter out of the timber-work answereth it.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּפִיס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3714/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Habakkuk 2:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.11/)

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כִּי־אֶ֖בֶן מִקִּ֣יר תִּזְעָ֑ק וְכָפִ֖יס מֵעֵ֥ץ יַעֲנֶֽנָּה׃פ

*Word for word:* (dm) a.stone from.\[the\] wall it.will.cry.out and a.rafter from.\[the\] wood(s) it will.answer.it

*JPS 1917:* For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

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