To bend
כָּפַףStrong’s H3721kaphaph (ka-phaph)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kaphaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “it bent down”, “those are bent down” and “are bent down”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.”
Meaning
- To bend, bend down, bow down, be bent, be bowed(Qal) to bend down, bow down · (Niphal) to bow oneself down
How it's translated
- it bent down 1
- those are bent down 1
- are bent down 1
- to bend down 1
- will i bend myself down 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Isaiah 1
- Micah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 145:14The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.
- Psalms 146:8The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
- Isaiah 58:5Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
- Micah 6:6Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
Hebrew dictionary
כָּפַף kaphaph · to bend
1) to bend, bend down, bow down, be bent, be bowed 1a) (Qal) to bend down, bow down 1b) (Niphal) to bow oneself down
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bend” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEND, verb intransitive
To be crooked; to crook, or be curving.
- To incline; to lean or turn; as, a road bends to the west.
- To jut over; as a bending cliff.
- To resolve, or determine.[See Bent on.]
- To bow or be submissive.
All definitions and other forms of “bend”
BEND,noun
A curve; a crook; a turn in a road or river; flexure; incurvation.
- In marine language, that part of a rope which is fastened to another or to an anchor. [See To bend No.8.]
- Bends of a ship, are the thickest and strongest planks in her sides, more generally called wales.
- In heraldry, one of the nine honorable ordinaries, containing a third part of the field, when charged, and a fifth, when plain.
BEND, noun
A band. [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.