Lexical Definition

‎כָּפַשׁ‎ kâphash (kaw-fash') to cower ^H:V
a primitive root

cover.

• to tread down
• figuratively, to humiliate

1) (Hiphil) to make bent, press or bend together
2) (CLBL) to bend down
2a) (Hiphil) to cause to bend down, trample

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎כָּפַשׁ‎] verb only Hiph`il make bent, press or bend together (Late Hebrew Hiph`il id.; ‎כָּפַשׁ‎ furnish a vessel with a bent rim, ‎כּוֺפֶשׁ‎ a broad-rimmed vessel; Arabic have bent or crooked feet; Tel Amarna kappâšu, sole of foot Dl^{HWB 348} (doubtfully), but infinitive from ‎כבשׁ‎ according to Wkl^{Tel Am. Letters, Vocab}.); —

Hiph`il Perfect 3 masculine singular suffix ‎בָּאֵפֶרהִכְפִּישַׁנִי‎ Lam 3:16 he made me cower in the ashes.

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