Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to cower
Usage: 1) (Hiphil) to make bent, press or bend together 2) (CLBL) to bend down 2a) (Hiphil) to cause to bend down, trample
Kaphash means “cover” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3728 — horkomosia (“oath”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3728 כָּפַשׁ (kaphash) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. kaphash (kaw-fash') v. 1. to tread down 2. (figuratively) to humiliate It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include covered. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
kaphash (kaw-fash') v. 1. to tread down 2. (figuratively) to humiliate [a primitive root] KJV: cover.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3728. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to cower
Usage: 1) (Hiphil) to make bent, press or bend together 2) (CLBL) to bend down 2a) (Hiphil) to cause to bend down, trample
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kaphash, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H3728.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3728, grouped by book.
Kaphash (Strong's H3728) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cover". kaphash (kaw-fash') v. 1. to tread down 2. (figuratively) to humiliate
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H3728 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3728 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as covered. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.