STRONGS NUMBER H3719


Word Summary
kaphan: to be hungry, to hunger
Original Word: כָּפַן
Transliteration: kaphan
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-fan')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be hungry, to hunger
Meaning: to be hungry, to hunger
Strong's Concordance
bend

A primitive root; to bend -- bend.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3719. kaphan

[כָּפַן‎] verb be hungry, hunger, perhaps also hungrily desire (Aramaic loan-word; compare Aramaic כְּפַן כְּפֵין,‎, be hungry; Arabic is spin wool, wrap a corpse in the shroud); — only

Qal Perfect3feminine singular עַל כָּֽפְנָהEzekiel 17:7 (si vera lectio) this vine stretched its roots hungrily towards ׅ‎ "" לְ שִׁלְּחָה (‎.