כֵּף

kef · rock

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3710 · appears 2 times in the Bible

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What it means

kef (כֵּף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rock”.

A rock, a hollow rock.

How to say it

kef

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A great cliff where people hide.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • climb up among the rocks ×1
  • crags ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Job 30:6

    In the ravine of the streams they must dwell, in holes of the dust and in the crags.

  • Jeremiah 4:29

    At the noise of horseman and archer every city flees; they go into the thickets and climb up among the rocks; every city is forsaken, and no man lives in them.