kafats · shut

What it means

kafats (קָפַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shut”.

Close the hand: refuse to give; also to draw together.

How to say it

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. To shut the hand or the mouth tightly so as not to give or speak; also to be gathered up, to die.
2. To move in leaps, lightly, hardly touching the ground.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• shuts ×2
• bounding ×1
• close ×1
• has he shut up ×1
• they are gathered up ×1
• will shut ×1

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1

• Deuteronomy 15:7

  If there is among you a needy one, one of your brothers, in one of your gates in your land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or close your hand against your brother, the needy one.

• Job 5:16

  So there is hope for the poor, and injustice shuts its mouth.

• Job 24:24

  They are exalted a little while, and are gone; and they are brought low, like all they are gathered up, and like the heads of grain they wither.

• Psalms 77:9

  Has El forgotten to show favor? Or has he shut up in anger his compassion? Selah.

• Psalms 107:42

  The upright see it and are glad, and all injustice shuts its mouth.

• Song of Songs 2:8

  The voice of my beloved! Look, here he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.

• Isaiah 52:15

  so he will sprinkle many nations; before him kings will shut their mouths; for what had not been told them they will see, and what they had not heard they will understand.