To hunger
כָּפַןStrong’s H3719kaphan (ka-phan)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kaphan is the Hebrew word usually translated “it bent”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to hunger, be hungry, hungrily desire
- (CLBL) to twist, bend
How it's translated
- it bent 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
כָּפַן kaphan · to hunger
1) (Qal) to hunger, be hungry, hungrily desire 2) (CLBL) to twist, bend
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hunger” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HUN'GER, noun
- An uneasy sensation occasioned by the want of food; a craving of food by the stomach; craving appetite. hunger is not merely want of food, for persons when sick, may abstain long from eating without hunger or an appetite for food. hunger therefore is the pain or uneasiness of the stomach of a healthy person, when too long destitute of food.
- Any strong or eager desire.
All definitions and other forms of “hunger”
HUN'GER, verb intransitive
To feel the pain or uneasiness which is occasioned by long abstinence from food; to crave food.
- To desire with great eagerness; to long for.“Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness” Matthew 5:6
HUN'GER, verb transitive
To famish. [Not in use.]
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.