1. כַּף
hollow, flat of the hand, palm, sole of foot, hand
The corpus record — Hebrew
לְכַף
kaph · n.f
hollow, flat of the hand, palm, sole of foot, hand
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 195 · 6.36/10k
Senses
2. כַּף
the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power
Attestations
- לְ/כַף Genesis 8:9 (BHS)
- כַּפַּ֖/י Genesis 20:5 (BHS)
- כַּפַּ֛/י Genesis 31:42 (BHS)
- בְּ/כַף Genesis 32:26 (BHS)
- כַּף Genesis 32:26 (BHS)
- כַּ֣ף Genesis 32:33 (BHS)
6 of 195 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.