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To roll

קָפַדStrong’s H7088

qaphad (qa-phad)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Qaphad is the Hebrew word usually translated “have rolled up”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.”
Isaiah 38:12 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Piel) to gather together, roll up, harvest
How it's translated
  • i have rolled up 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    קָפַד qaphad · to roll

    (Piel) to gather together, roll up, harvest

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “roll” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    ROLL, verb transitive

    [It is usual to consider this word as formed by contraction from the Latin rotula, a little wheel, from rota.]

    1. To move by turning on the surface, or with a circular motion in which all parts of the surface are successively applied to a plane; as, to roll a barrel or puncheon; to roll a stone or ball.
    2. To revolve; to turn on its axis; as, to roll a wheel or a planet.
    3. To move in a circular direction.
    4. To wrap round on itself; to form into a circular or cylindrical body; as, to roll a piece of cloth; to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll tobacco.
    All definitions and other forms of “roll”
    1. To enwrap; to bind or involve in a bandage or the like.
    2. To form by rolling into round masses.
    3. To drive or impel any body with a circular motion, or to drive forward with violence or in a stream.
    4. To spread with a roller or rolling pin; as, to roll paste.
    5. To produce a periodical revolution.
    6. To press or level with a roller; as, to roll a field.

    ROLL, verb intransitive

    1. To move by turning on the surface, or with the successive application of all parts of the surface to a plane; as, a ball or a wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.
    2. To move, turn or run on an axis; as a wheel. [In this sense, revolve is more generally used.
    3. To run on wheels.
    4. To revolve; to perform a periodical revolution; as the rolling year.
    5. To turn; to move circularly.
    6. To float in rough water; to be tossed about.
    7. To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swells and depressions.
    8. To fluctuate; to move tumultuously.
    9. To be moved with violence; to be hurled.
    10. To be formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls well.
    11. To spread under a roller or rolling pin.
    12. To wallow; to tumble; as, a horse rolls.
    13. To rock or move from side; as, a ship rolls in a calm.
    14. To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.

    ROLL, noun

    1. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as the roll of a ball.
    2. The thing rolling.
    3. A mass made round; something like a ball or cylinder; as a roll of fat; a roll of wool.
    4. A roller; a cylinder of wood, iron or stone; as a roll to break clods.
    5. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as a roll of woolen or satin; a roll of lace.
    6. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
    7. An official writing; a list; a register; a catalogue; as a muster-roll; a court roll
    8. The beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
    9. Rolls of court, of parliament, or of any public body, are the parchments on which are engrossed, by the proper officer, the acts and proceedings of that body, and which being kept in rolls, constitute the records of such public body.
    10. In antiquity, a volume; a book consisting of leaf, bark, paper, skin or other material on which the ancients wrote, and which being kept rolled or folded, was called in Latin volume, from volvo, to roll Hence.
    11. A chronicle; history; annals.
    12. Part; office; that is, round of duty, like turn. obsolete

    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.