To bind
כְּפַתStrong’s H3729kephat (ke-phat)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kephat is the Aramaic word usually translated “bound”, “bind” and “were bound”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.”
Meaning
- To bind(P'il) to be bound · (Pael) to bind
How it's translated
- bound 2
- to bind 1
- they were bound 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:21In contextThen these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:23In contextAnd these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:24In contextThen Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
Aramaic dictionary
כְּפַת kephat · to bind
1) to bind 1a) (P'il) to be bound 1b) (Pael) to bind
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bind” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BIND, verb transitive
- To tie together, or confine with a cord, or any thing that is flexible; to fasten as with a band, fillet or ligature.
- To gird, inwrap or involve; to confine by a wrapper, cover or bandage; sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
- To confine or restrain, as with a chain, fetters or cord; as, bind him hand and foot.
- To restrain in any manner.“He bindeth the floods from overflowing” Job 28:11
All definitions and other forms of “bind”
- To oblige by a promise, vow, stipulation, covenant, law, duty or any other moral tie; to engage.“If a man shall swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond” Numbers 30:2
- To confirm or ratify.“Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven” Matthew 16:19
- To distress, trouble, or confine by infirmity.“Whom Satan hath bound these eighteen years” Luke 13:16
- To constrain by a powerful influence or persuasion.“I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem” Acts 20:22
- To restrain the natural discharges of the bowels; to make costive; as, certain kinds of food bind the body or bowels.
- To form a border; to fasten with a band, ribin, or any thing that strengthens the edges; as, to bind a garment or carpet.
- To cover with leather or anything firm; to sew together and cover; as, to bind a book.
- To cover or secure by a band; as, to bind a wheel with tire.
- To oblige to serve, by contract; as, to bind an apprentice; often with out; as, to bind out a servant.
- To make hard or firm; as, certain substances bind the earth.
BIND, verb intransitive
To contract; to grow hard or stiff; as, clay binds by heat.
- To grow or become costive.
- To be obligatory.
BIND, noun
A stalk of hops, so called from its winding round a pole or tree, or being bound to it.
- A bind of eels, is a quantity consisting of 10 strikes, each containing 25 eels, or 250 in the whole.
- Among miners, indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxyd of iron.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.