To congeal
קָפָאStrong’s H7087qapah (qa-pah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qapah is the Hebrew word usually translated “congealed”, “did you curdle me” and “who are thickening”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:”
Meaning
- To thicken, condense, congeal, settle, become dense(Qal) to be condensed · (Hiphil) to cause to curdle
- Congelation
How it's translated
- they congealed 1
- did you curdle me 1
- who are thickening 1
- and frost 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Job 1
- Zephaniah 1
- Zechariah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 15:8And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
- Job 10:10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
- Zephaniah 1:12And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
Hebrew dictionary
קָפָא qapah · to congeal
v 1) to thicken, condense, congeal, settle, become dense 1a) (Qal) to be condensed 1a1) thickening (participle) 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to curdle
קִפָּאוֹן qipaon · thickness
congelation
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “congeal” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONGEAL, verb transitive
[Latin, to freeze, has the elements of cool, but it may be a different word.]
- To change from a fluid to a solid sate, as by cold, or a loss of heat, as water in freezing, liquid metal or wax in cooling, blood in stagnating or cooling, etc.; to harden into ice, or into a substance of less solidity.
- To bind or fix with cold.
All definitions and other forms of “congeal”
CONGEAL, verb intransitive
To grow hard, stiff or thick; to pass from a fluid to a solid state; to concrete into a solid mass. Melted lead congelas; water congeals; blood congeals.
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.