Strong's Concordance
kaphis: a rafter, girder
Original Word: כָּפִיסPart of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: kaphis
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-fece')
Short Definition: rafter
Brown-Driver-Briggs
apparently (si vera lectio) technical term for some beam in a house, perhaps rafter, or girder (Late Hebrew
id., Levy, Jastrow, but according to Hoffm
ZAW ii. 1881, 71 it is changed from oblong block of wood (O.T.) to a
building-stone, or
brick in Mishna); — only
Habakkuk 2:11 for a stone out of the wall crieth out,
and a rafter out of the timber-work answereth it. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
beam
From an unused root meaning to connect; a girder -- beam.
Forms and Transliterations
וְכָפִ֖יס וכפיס vechaFis wə·ḵā·p̄îs wəḵāp̄îs
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