Hebrew Study
Strong’s Concordance H5605
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
- caphaph
- Pronunciation
- saw-faf'
- Occurrences
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- Strong’s number
- H5605
- Brief meaning
- Properly, to snatch away, i.e. terminate, but used only as denominative from H5592 (in the sense of a vestibule), to wait at the threshold
- Source renderings
- be a doorkeeper
- Root word
- a primitive root
- Full definition from the source
- Properly, to snatch away, i.e. terminate; but used only as denominative from H5592 (in the sense of a vestibule), to wait at the threshold. Root word: a primitive root.
- Digital-source-added cross-reference note
- H5592
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.
View the 1890 print witnessView preserved source wording
05605\ 5605 caphaph saw-faf' a primitive root; properly, to snatch away, i.e. terminate; but used only as denominative from 5592 (in the sense of a vestibule), to wait at the threshold:--be a doorkeeper. see HEBREW for 05592