King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3711
Transliteration: kaphah
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-faw')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to subdue
Meaning: to bend, to tame, subdue
Word Summary
kaphah: to subdue
Original Word: כָּפָהTransliteration: kaphah
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-faw')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to subdue
Meaning: to bend, to tame, subdue
Strong's Concordance
pacify A primitive root; properly, to bend, i.e. (figuratively) to tame or subdue -- pacify.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3711. kaphah
[כָּפָה] verb probably subdue (Late Hebrew overturn, hold under, compel; Aramaic כְּפָא, id.; incline (as face to ground), overturn; Assyrian kipû perhaps id., DlHWB 346; compare Arabic overturn, turn back); — only
Qal Imperfect יִכְמֶּהאָֿ֑ף בַּסֵּתֶר מַתָּן Proverbs 21:14 a gift in secret subdueth anger (so Thes Rob-Ges; Ew beugt: Fl De averteth, from the Arabic, is more remote; ᵐ5 ἀνατρέπει, compare Late Hebrew).
כִּמָּה see below כפף.