לָפַת
Used: 3 times · Key: 3943 · BDB: לָפַת
Glosses
he.twisted (2); they.twist (1)
Meaning (OSHB)
twist tree →
Meaning (BDB 1906)
vb. twist, turn, grasp with twisting motion tree →
The whole BDB entry
vb. twist, turn, grasp with a twisting motion (Arabic لَفَتَ twist, wring; Assyrian lapâtu, overthrow, DlHWB 382);— Impf. וַיִּלְפֹּת Ju 16:29 sq. acc., Samson grasped the two middle columns. Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּלָּפֵת Ru 3:8 the man started up and twisted himself; 3 mpl. יִלָּֽפְתוּ Jb 6:18 the paths of their way [i.e. of the streams] turn aside (twist, wind, with lessening force), so AV Hi De Da Bu > Ew Ol Di Siegf Du, who read Qal יִלְפְּתוּ or Pi. יְלַפְּתוּ, making ארחות, = caravans, subj.
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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 (2 candidates)
Trees and pragmatics
Every English meaning of «לָפַת» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.
In the verses
יִ֭לָּ֣פְתוּ אָרְח֣וֹת דַּרְכָּ֑ם יַעֲל֖וּ בַתֹּ֣הוּ וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ׃
Word for word: they.twist the.paths their.way their they.go.up in the wasteland and they.perish
JPS 1917: The paths of their way do wind, they go up into the waste, and are lost.
וַיְהִי֙ בַּחֲצִ֣י הַלַּ֔יְלָה וַיֶּחֱרַ֥ד הָאִ֖ישׁ וַיִּלָּפֵ֑ת וְהִנֵּ֣ה אִשָּׁ֔ה שֹׁכֶ֖בֶת מַרְגְּלֹתָֽיו׃
Word for word: and it.was in the.middle of the.night and he.trembled the man and he.twisted and there! a.woman [was].lying.down feet his
JPS 1917: And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was startled, and turned himself; and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
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