כָּפִיס

«כָּפִיס» in the Tanakh dictionary: rafter — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

Used: 1 times · Key: 3714 · BDB: כָּפִיס

Glosses

a.rafter (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

rafter tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. rafter girder tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. appar. (si vera l.) term. techn. for some beam in a house, perhaps rafter, or girder (NH id., Levy, Jastrow, but according to HoffmZAW ii. 1881, 71 it is changed from oblong block of wood (O. textual) to a building-stone, or brick in Mish.);—only Hb 2:11 for a stone out of the wall crieth out, וְכ׳ מֵעֵץ יַעֲנֶנָּה and a rafter out of the timber-work answereth it.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «כָּפִיס» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Habakkuk 2:11

כִּי־אֶ֖בֶן מִקִּ֣יר תִּזְעָ֑ק וְכָפִ֖יס מֵעֵ֥ץ יַעֲנֶֽנָּה׃פ

Word for word: (dm) a.stone from.[the] wall it.will.cry.out and a.rafter from.[the] wood(s) it will.answer.it

JPS 1917: For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

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