Lexical Definition

‎קָפַץ‎ qâphats (kaw-fats') to gather ^H:V
a primitive root

shut (up), skip, stop, take out of the way.

• to draw together, i.e. close
• by implication, to leap (by contracting the limbs)
• specifically, to die (from gathering up the feet)

1) to draw together, close, shut, shut up, stop up
1a) (Qal) to shut
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to draw oneself together (of death)
1b2) to be shut up to death
1c) (Piel) springing, skipping (participle)

See Greek: συνάγω · συνέχω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎קָפַץ‎ verb draw together, shut (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic collect, conjoin, tie; Syriac draw together, contract, withdraw (compare Nö^{M 47: ZMG xxxiii (1879), 516}); ᵑ7 ‎קְפַץ‎ hasten (double oneself up in running), Pi`el hop, spring); —

Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular ‎׳‎‎ק‎ Ps 77:10*, etc.; Imperfect 2 masculine singular ‎תִּקְפֹּץ‎ Deut 15:7 3 masculine plural ‎יִקְפְּצוּ‎ Isa 52:15 — shut hand Deut 15:7 (with ‎מִן‎ away from, so as not to lend; opp, ‎פתח‎ vDeut 15:80); mouth, in astonishment Isa 52:15, in abject silence Job 5:16; Ps 107:42 figurative ‎רַחֲמָיו‎ ‎׳‎‎ק‎ Ps 77:10* shut up his compassion. Niph`al Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎יִקָּֽפְצוּן‎ Job 24:24 si vera lectio, they draw themselves together, of contraction in death (compare Di Bu; Ol ‎יִקָּֽבְצוּן‎ are gathered in). Pi`el Participle ‎מְקַפֵּץ עַלהַֿגְּבָעוֺת‎ Song 2:8 springing (i.e. making repeated contractions of body, in taking leaps) upon the hills (|| ‎מְרַלֵּג‎).

‎קֵץ‎ see ‎קצץ‎.

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