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כִּפָּהStrong’s H3712

kippah (kip-pah)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Kippah is the Hebrew word usually translated “palm branch” and “palm branch his”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.”
Job 15:32 KJV
Meaning
  1. Branch, leaf, frond, palm frond, palm branch
How it's translated
  • palm branch 2
  • and palm branch his 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 2
  • Job 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

כִּפָּה kippah · branch

branch, leaf, frond, palm frond, palm branch

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “branch” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BR'ANCH, noun

  1. The shoot of a tree or other plant; a limb; a bough shooting from the stem, or from another branch or bough.
  2. Any arm or extended part shooting or extended from the main body of a thing; as the branch of a candlestick or of an artery.
  3. Any member or part of a body, or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; as, charity is a branch of christian duty.
  4. Any individual of a family descending in a collateral line; any descendant from a common parent or stock.
All definitions and other forms of “branch”
  1. Branches of a bridle, two pieces of bent iron which bear the bit, the cross chains and the curb.
  2. In architecture, branches of ogives are the arches of Gothic vaults, traversing from one angle to another diagonally, and forming a cross between the other arches, which make the sides of the square, of which these arches are diagonals.
  3. A warrant or commission given to a pilot.
  4. A chandelier.

BR'ANCH, verb intransitive

To shoot or spread in branches; to ramify, as a plant, or as horns.

  1. To divide into separate parts, or subdivisions, as a mountain, a stream, or a moral subject; to ramify.
  2. To speak diffusively; to make many distinctions or divisions in a discourse.
  3. To have horns shooting out.

BR'ANCH, verb transitive

To divide as into branches; to make subordinate divisions.

  1. To adorn with needle work, representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.