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Exodus 39:4
“They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
כָּתֵףkâthêph · kaw-thafe'
H3802 · Hebrew
H3802 · Hebrew
- Definition
- the shoulder (proper, i.e. upper end of the arm; as being the spot where the garments hang); figuratively, side-piece or lateral projection of anything
- Derivation
- from an unused root meaning to clothe;
- KJV renderings
- arm, corner, shoulder(-piece), side, undersetter.
- Grammar
- כְּתֵפֹ֥ת — common noun, feminine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 67 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 27:14Exodus 27:15Exodus 28:7Exodus 28:12Exodus 28:12
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read כָּתֵף here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.