Hebrew Study
Strong’s Concordance H5594
A readable Hebrew dictionary entry from Strong’s Concordance. Definitions help with word study; the meaning in a verse still depends on context.
Word study
- Source
- Strong’s Concordance
- Transliteration
- caphad
- Pronunciation
- saw-fad'
- Occurrences
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- Strong’s number
- H5594
- Brief meaning
- Properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief), generally to lament, by implication, to wail
- Source renderings
- lament, mourn(-er), wail
- Root word
- a primitive root
- Full definition from the source
- Properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail. Root word: a primitive root.
Source info
Source and edition
James Strong, Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary (1890); Bible Foundation text source; Michael Grier's 1996 ASCII e-text; CrossWire module 1.2.
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05594\ 5594 caphad saw-fad' a primitive root; properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail:--lament, mourn(-er), wail.