STRONGS NUMBER H3712


Word Summary
kippah: a branch, frond (of a palm tree)
Original Word: כִּפָּה
Transliteration: kippah
Phonetic Spelling: (kip-paw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a branch, frond (of a palm tree)
Meaning: a branch, frond (of a palm tree)
Strong's Concordance
branch

Feminine of kaph; a leaf of a palm-tree -- branch.

see HEBREW kaph

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3712. kippah

כִּמָּהnoun feminine branch frond (probably of palm tree, compare כַּף3d); — ׳כIsaiah 9:13; 19:15 figurative of nobles, rulers (both opposed to אַגְמוֺןrush, i.e. high and low; "" וְזָנָב רֹאשׁ‎); with suffix כִּמָּתוֺJob 15:32 (of wicked under figure of palm-tree).

I. כפר‎ (of following; original meaning dubious, but most probably cover, compare Arabic cover, hide; > RS who thinks of Aramaic כָפַר‎, Pa`el wash away, rub off whence כִּמֶּר כֹּפֶר‎ of washing away, obliteration of sin: Late Hebrew כִּמֶּר‎, Aramaic כַּמֵּר‎ and derive.; Arabic an expiation (see RSOTJC 438; 2. 381 Kn on Leviticus 4:20 RiBegr. Der Sühne Wecompare 335 f. SmAT Rel. Geschichte. 321 NowArchaeology ii, 192 DrDeut 425 SchmollerSt,Kr. 1891, 205 ff. LagBN 230 ff.)). **On original meaning compare now DrHast. DB PROPITIATION; also Assyrian kuppuru, purify (and derivatives takpirtu) ZimKAT 3. 601 f. MorgensternSin in Babylonian Religion (MVG 1905, 3) 44, 122.