כַּףkaph

Meanings

Same root

• כָּפַףkâphaph · H3721to curve
• יָדyâd · H3027a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
• כִּפָּהkippâh · H3712a leaf of a palmtree

Where it appears

Appears 193 times in the Bible.

• Genesis 8:9 But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside.
• Genesis 20:5 Didn’t Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘Yes, he is my brother.’ I acted in complete innocence! My hands are clean.”
• Genesis 31:42 In fact, if the God of my father had not been on my side—the God of Abraham and the fearsome God of Isaac—you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen your abuse and my hard work. That is why he appeared to you last night and rebuked you!”
• Genesis 32:25 When the man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob’s hip and wrenched it out of its socket.
• Genesis 32:32 (Even today the people of Israel don’t eat the tendon near the hip socket because of what happened that night when the man strained the tendon of Jacob’s hip.)
• Genesis 40:11 I was holding Pharaoh’s wine cup in my hand, so I took a cluster of grapes and squeezed the juice into the cup. Then I placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”