Shoulder
כָּתֵףStrong’s H3802kateph (ka-teph)
Appears in 58 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kateph is the Hebrew word usually translated “side of”, “slope of” and “shoulder”. It appears in 58 verses of the Old Testament.
“But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.”
Meaning
- Shoulder, shoulder-blade, side, slopeshoulder, shoulder-blade (of man) · shoulder, shoulder-pieces (of animals) · side, slope (of mountain) · supports (of laver)
How it's translated
- side of 9
- slope of 7
- a shoulder 7
- shoulder-pieces of 6
- from side of 5
- the side 4
- shoulder of 3
- shoulders his 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 17
- Exodus 12
- Joshua 8
- 1 Kings 4
- Isaiah 4
- 2 Chronicles 3
15 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 27:14The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- Exodus 27:15And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- Exodus 28:7It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
- Exodus 28:12And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
- Exodus 28:25And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.
- Exodus 28:27And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
All 58 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
כָּתֵף kateph · shoulder
1) shoulder, shoulder-blade, side, slope 1a) shoulder, shoulder-blade (of man) 1b) shoulder, shoulder-pieces (of animals) 1c) side, slope (of mountain) 1d) supports (of laver)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shoulder” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHOULDER, noun
- The joint by which the arm of a human being or the fore leg of a quadruped is connected with the body; or in man, the projection formed by the bones called scapula or shoulder blades, which extend from the basis of the neck in a horizontal direction.
- The upper joint of the fore leg of an animal cut for th emarket; as a shoulder of mutton.
- Shoulders, in the plural, the upper part of the back.
- Figuratively, support; sustaining power; or that which elevates and sustains.
All definitions and other forms of “shoulder”
- Among artificers, something like the human shoulder; a horizontal or rectangular projection from the body of a thing.
SHOULDER, verb transitive
- To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence.
- To take upon the shoulder; as, to shoulder a basket.
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.