Caphach means “abiding” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5596 — psomion (“sop”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5596 סָפַח שָׂפַח (caphach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. caphach (saw-fakh') (or saphach (Isaiah 3) v. 1. (properly) to scrape out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association) [a primitive root] It has 6 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include out. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
caphach (saw-fakh') (or saphach (Isaiah 3) v. 1. (properly) to scrape out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association) [a primitive root] KJV: abiding, gather together, cleave, smite with the scab.
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to attach
Usage: 1) to join, attach to, join together 1a) (Qal) to join, attach to 1b) (Niphal) to attach oneself 1c) (Piel) joining (participle) 1d) (Pual) to be joined together, hold oneself together 1e) (Hithpael) to join oneself
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render caphach, 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.
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6 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
First 6 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5596.
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
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Caphach (Strong's H5596) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "abiding". caphach (saw-fakh') (or saphach (Isaiah 3) v. 1. (properly) to scrape out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association) [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 6 linked usages for Strong's H5596 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5596 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as out. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.