Hebrew Study
Strong’s Concordance H5595
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
- caphah
- Pronunciation
- saw-faw'
- Occurrences
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- Strong’s number
- H5595
- Brief meaning
- Properly, to scrape (literally, to shave, but usually figuratively) together (i.e. to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e. to scatter, remove
- Source renderings
- add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put
- Root word
- a primitive root
- Full definition from the source
- Properly, to scrape (literally, to shave; but usually figuratively) together (i.e. to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e. to scatter, remove, or ruin; intransitively, to perish). 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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05595\ 5595 caphah saw-faw' a primitive root; properly, to scrape (literally, to shave; but usually figuratively) together (i.e. to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e. to scatter, remove, or ruin; intransitively, to perish):--add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.