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double , كَفَلٌ ( kafalun ) posteriors, buttocks; Ethiopic ˜˜˜ ( kafala ) is divide , ˜˜˜ ( kəfl ) a part ) Qal Pf. 2 ms. וְכָפַלְתָּ˜ Ex 26:9 and thou shalt double over the sixth curtain, i.e. prob. use it double ( Di ); Pt. pass. כָּפוּל folded double , of the breast-piece ( חֹשֶׁן ) Ex 28:16 ; 39:9 (×2). Niph. Impf. 3 fs. וְתִכָּפֵל Ez 21:19 and let the sword be doubled , but very dub. ; Co reads plausibly תְּשַׁכֵּל let the sword bereave ( cf. V B).

כֶּ˜פֶל S 3718 TWOT 1019a GK 4101 n. [ m. ] the double :— כ׳ cstr .: רִסְנֹו בְּכ׳ Jb 41:5 within the double of his jaw (i.e. his double jaws) who can come? elsewhere du. כִּפְלַיִם ( cf. Arabic كِفْلَانِ ( kiflāni )), לְתוּשִׁיָּה 11:6 double in sound wisdom (beyond what Job imagines), of retribution Is 40:2 .

מַכְפֵּלָה S 4375 TWOT 1019b GK 4834 n.pr.loc. near Hebron, where the patriarchs and their wives were buried, only in P , always c. art.; שׂדה אשׁר בַּמּ׳ Gn 23:1 7, מְעָרַת הַמּ׳ the cave of Machpelah v 9, 25:9 , שְׂדֵה הַמּ׳ מְעָרַת 23:1 9; 50:13 , מְעָרָה אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׂדֵה הַמּ׳ 49:3 0.— cf. Buhl Geogr. 160, 161 .— ( Evidently orig. appell., but meaning dub. ; Ö τὸ διπλοῦν ; according to Thes = part, lot, portion , as Ethiopic ˜˜˜˜˜ ( makfalt ) ) .

•[כָּפַן S 3719 TWOT 1020 GK 4102 ] vb. be hungry, hunger , perhaps also hungrily desire ( Aramaic loan-word; cf. Aramaic כְּפֵין , כְּפַן , ܟܦܶܢ ( kpen ) be hungry; Arabic كَفَنَ ( kafana ) is spin wool, wrap a corpse in the shroud ) ;—only

Qal Pf. 3 fs. כָּֽפְנָה עַל Ez 17:7 ( si vera l. ) this vine stretched its roots hungrily toward ( || שִׁלְּחָה לְ ).

כָּפָן S 3720 TWOT 1020a GK 4103 n. [ m. ] hunger, famine (Aramaism; on form cf. Lag BN 144), Jb 5:22 ; 30:3 .

כפס TWOT 1021 ( perhaps √ of foll.; cf. å כְּפַס Est 1:6 bind, fasten (so Levy , Jastrow ) ) .

VB Variorum Bible. Levy Jacob Levy. Jastrow Marcus Jastrow, Dict of Targumim, Talmud, etc.; also Morris Jastrow, Jr.


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