כָּפַל
kafal · fold double
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3717 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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kafal (כָּפַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fold double”.
Doubled.
How to say it
ka·fal
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
- Fold cloth in two.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- doubled ×4
- you shall double over ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 26:9
You shall join five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves, and you shall double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tent.
- Exodus 28:16
It shall be square and doubled, a span its length and a span its width.
- Exodus 39:9
It was square; doubled they made the breastpiece, a span its length and a span its width, doubled.
- Ezekiel 21:14
And you, son of man, prophesy, and strike palm against palm, and let it be doubled, the sword, a third time, a sword of the slain it is, the sword of the great slain one, that surrounds them,
And 1 more times.