Rafter
כָּפִיסStrong’s H3714kaphis (ka-phis)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kaphis is the Hebrew word usually translated “rafter”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.”
Meaning
- Rafter, girder (meaning uncertain)
How it's translated
- and a rafter 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Habakkuk 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
כָּפִיס kaphis · rafter
rafter, girder (meaning uncertain)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rafter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
R'AFTER, noun
[Gr. to cover; a roof.]
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.