Definition

the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power

Etymology

from H3721 (כָּפַף);

Where the KJV renders it

• branch
• foot
• hand((-ful)
• -dle
• (-led))
• hollow
• middle
• palm
• paw
• power
• sole
• spoon

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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