Lexical Summary kaphis: a rafter, girder Original Word: כָּפִיסTransliteration: kaphis Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-fece') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a rafter, girder Meaning: a rafter, girder Strong's Concordance beam From an unused root meaning to connect; a girder -- beam. Brown-Driver-Briggs H3714. kaphis כָּפִיס noun masculine apparently (si vera lectio) technical term for some beam in a house, perhaps rafter, or girder (Late Hebrew id., Levy, Jastrow, but according to HoffmZAW ii. 1881, 71 it is changed from oblong block of wood (O.T.) to a building-stone, or brick in Mishna); — only Habakkuk 2:11 for a stone out of the wall crieth out, ׳וְכ יַעֲנֶנָּה מֵעֵץ and a rafter out of the timber-work answereth it. |
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