3712. kippah
Strong's Concordance
kippah: a branch, frond (of a palm tree)
Original Word: כִּפָּה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: kippah
Phonetic Spelling: (kip-paw')
Short Definition: branch
Brown-Driver-Briggs
כִּמָּה noun feminine branch frond (probably of palm tree, compare כַּף 3d); — ׳כ Isaiah 9:13; Isaiah 19:15 figurative of nobles, rulers (both opposed to אַגְמוֺן rush, i.e. high and low; "" רֹאשׁ וְזָנָב); with suffix כִּמָּתוֺ Job 15:32 (of wicked under figure of palm-tree).

I. כפר (of following; original meaning dubious, but most probably cover, compare Arabic cover, hide; > RS who thinks of Aramaic כָפַר, Pa`el wash away, rub off whence כֹּפֶר כִּמֶּר of washing away, obliteration of sin: Late Hebrew כִּמֶּר, Aramaic כַּמֵּר and derive.; Arabic an expiation (see RSOTJC 438; 2. 381 Kn on Leviticus 4:20 RiBegr. Der Sühne Wecompare 335 f. SmAT Rel. Geschichte. 321 NowArchaeology ii, 192 DrDeut 425 SchmollerSt,Kr. 1891, 205 ff. LagBN 230 ff.)). **On original meaning compare now DrHast. DB PROPITIATION; also Assyrian kuppuru, purify (and derivatives takpirtu) ZimKAT 3. 601 f. MorgensternSin in Babylonian Religion (MVG 1905, 3) 44, 122.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
branch

Feminine of kaph; a leaf of a palm-tree -- branch.

see HEBREW kaph

Forms and Transliterations
וְ֝כִפָּת֗וֹ וכפתו כִּפָּ֥ה כפה kip·pāh kipPah kippāh vechippaTo wə·ḵip·pā·ṯōw wəḵippāṯōw
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3 Occurrences


kip·pāh — 2 Occ.
wə·ḵip·pā·ṯōw — 1 Occ.

Job 15:32
HEB: י֭וֹמוֹ תִּמָּלֵ֑א וְ֝כִפָּת֗וֹ לֹ֣א רַעֲנָֽנָה׃
NAS: his time, And his palm branch will not be green.
KJV: his time, and his branch shall not be green.
INT: his time will be accomplished and his palm before shall not be green

Isaiah 9:14
HEB: רֹ֧אשׁ וְזָנָ֛ב כִּפָּ֥ה וְאַגְמ֖וֹן י֥וֹם
NAS: from Israel, [Both] palm branch and bulrush
KJV: head and tail, branch and rush, in one
INT: head and tail palm and bulrush day

Isaiah 19:15
HEB: רֹ֥אשׁ וְזָנָ֖ב כִּפָּ֥ה וְאַגְמֽוֹן׃ ס
NAS: or tail, [its] palm branch or bulrush,
KJV: or tail, branch or rush,
INT: head tail palm bulrush

3 Occurrences

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