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title: קָפַץ — draw together · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קָפַץ (7092), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: draw together. BDB 1906: vb. draw together, shut. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קָפַץ

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«קָפַץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **draw together** — 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:** 7 times · **Key:** 7092 · **BDB:** קָפַץ

### Glosses

it.shuts (2); \[he.is\].bounding (1); has.he.shut.off (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

draw together [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7092/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. draw together, shut [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7092/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. draw together, shut (NH = BH; Arabic قَفَصَ collect, conjoin, tie; Syriac ܩܦܰܣ draw together, contract, withdraw (cf. NöM 47: ZMG xxxiii (1879), 516); 𝔗 קְפַץ hasten (double oneself up in running), Pi. hop, spring);— Pf. 3 ms. ק׳ ψ 77:10, etc.; Impf. 2 ms. תִּקְפֹּץ Dt 15:7; 3 mpl. יִקְפְּצוּ Is 52:15;—shut hand Dt 15:7 (c. מִן away from, so as not to lend; opp. פתח v 8); mouth, in astonishment Is 52:15, in abject silence Jb 5:16 ψ 107:42; fig. ק׳ רַחֲמָיו 77:10 shut up his compassion. Impf. 3 ms. יִקָּֽפְצוּן Jb 24:24 si vera l., they draw themselves together, of contraction in death (cf. Di Bu; Ol יִקָּֽבְצוּן are gathered in). Pt. מְקַפֵּץ עַל־הַגְּבָעוֹת Ct 2:8 springing (i.e. making repeated contractions of body, in taking leaps) upon the hills (‖ מְדַלֵּג).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קָפַץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7092/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 107:42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.42/)

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יִרְא֣וּ יְשָׁרִ֣ים וְיִשְׂמָ֑חוּ וְכָל־עַ֝וְלָ֗ה קָ֣פְצָה פִּֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* they.see upright.\[people\] and they.rejoice and all unrighteousness it.shuts mouth its

*JPS 1917:* The upright see it, and are glad; and all iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

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[Psalms 77:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.10/)

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הֲשָׁכַ֣ח חַנּ֣וֹת אֵ֑ל אִם־קָפַ֥ץ בְּ֝אַ֗ף רַחֲמָ֥יו סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* has he.forgotten? to.have.compassion God or? has.he.shut.off in anger compassion(s) his Selah

*JPS 1917:* Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?' Selah

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