STRONGS NUMBER H3943


Word Summary
laphath: to twist, turn, grasp with a twisting motion
Original Word: לָפַת
Transliteration: laphath
Phonetic Spelling: (law-fath')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to twist, turn, grasp with a twisting motion
Meaning: to twist, turn, grasp with a twisting motion
Strong's Concordance
take hold, turn aside self

A primitive root; properly, to bend, i.e. (by implication) to clasp; also (reflexively) to turn around or aside -- take hold, turn aside (self).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3943. laphath

[לָפַת‎] verb twist, turn, grasp with a twisting motion (Arabic twist, wring; Assyrian lapâtu, overthrow, DlHWB 382); —

Qal Imperfect וַיִּלְמֹּתJudges 16:29 followed by accusative, Samson grasped the two middle columns.

Niph`al Imperfect3masculine singular וַיִּלָּפֵתRuth 3:8 the man started up and twisted himself; 3 masculine plural יִלָּֽפְתוּJob 6:18 the paths of their way [i.e. of the streams] turn aside (twist, wind, with lessening force), so AV Hi De Da Bu > Ew Ol Di Siegf Du, who read Qal יִלְמְּתוּ‎ or Pi`el יְלַמְּתוּ‎, making ארחות‎, = caravans, subject

לָצוֺן לֵץ,‎ see below ליץ‎.