קָפַץqâphats
draw together, shut
Pronunciation: kaw-fats' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7092
Meanings
Qal: shut (Psalms 77:10; Deuteronomy 15:7; Isaiah 52:15)
Niph`al: draw themselves together, of contraction in death (Job 24:24)
Pi`el: springing, (i.e. making repeated contractions of body, in taking leaps) (Song of Solomon 2:8)
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 15:7 “But if there are any poor Israelites in your towns when you arrive in the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tightfisted toward them.
- Job 5:16 And so at last the poor have hope, and the snapping jaws of the wicked are shut.
- Job 24:24 And though they are great now, in a moment they will be gone like all others, cut off like heads of grain.
- Psalms 77:9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he slammed the door on his compassion? Interlude
- Psalms 107:42 The godly will see these things and be glad, while the wicked are struck silent.
- Song of Solomon 2:8 Ah, I hear my lover coming! He is leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).