Lexical Definition

‎כָּפִיס‎ kâphîyç (kaw-fece') rafter ^H:N-M
from an unused root meaning to connect

beam.

• a girder

1) rafter, girder (meaning dubious)

Extended Information

• rafter, girder (meaning uncertain)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎כָּפִיס‎ noun masculine apparently (si vera lectio) technical term for some beam in a house, perhaps rafter, or girder (Late Hebrew id., Levy, Jastrow, but according to Hoffm^{ZAW ii. 1881, 71 it is changed} from oblong block of wood (O.T.) to a building-stone, or brick in Mishna); — only Hab 2:11 for a stone out of the wall crieth out, ‎מֵעֵץ יַעֲנֶנָּה‎ ‎׳‎‎וְכ‎ and a rafter out of the timber-work answereth it.

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