Quick Definition
to gather
Strong's Definition
to draw together, i.e. close; by implication, to leap (by contracting the limbs); specifically, to die (from gathering up the feet)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: shut (up), skip, stop, take out of the way.
TWOT Reference: 2051
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
קָפַץ (qa.phats) — to gather. 1) to draw together, close, shut, shut up, stop up 1a) (Qal) to shut 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to draw oneself together (of death) 1b2) to be shut up to death 1c) (Piel) springing, skipping (participle)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Unable | Non-Speak | verb qal | ≠ פתח
Collocation: קפץ פֶּה
to shut (one's) mouth, to become silent, to be speechless literally: to close (one's) mouth; hence: = action by which humans are no longer able to speak ◄ often as a result of being overwhelmed by certain circumstances
Non-Possess | verb qal | ≈ אמץ לֵבָב
Collocation: קפץ יָד
to close (one's) hand, to be tightfisted, to be selfish literally: to close (one's) hand (from someone else); hence: = state in which humans are unwilling to offer help to someone in need
End | verb qal | ≈ שׁכח
to close (an event), to withhold (an event), to withdraw (an event) literally: to close an event; hence: = causative action by which deities stop an event from happening
verb
Move | Leap | verb pi | ≈ דלג
to leap, to bound = action by which animals move speedily by jumping over any obstacle that they find in their way; ≈ exclusively used metaphorically to refer to humans
verb
Dry | verb nif
to wither, to fade meaning unsure; probably: = process by which plants slowly dry up and die
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
קָפַץ vb. draw together, shut Qal shut
Niph. they drew themselves together, of contraction in death
Pi. springing (i.e. making repeated contractions of body, in taking leaps) upon the hills
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