אֶ֫כֶף
pressure
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H405 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Job 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
אכף — transliterated ʼekeph — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “pressure.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Job. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Job 33:7. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H405 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Job 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Shall my hand 1×
- American Standard Version: Shall my pressure 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Will my hand 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pressure 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H405 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H405 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H405 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H405 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- pressure, urgency, burden
Word origin
[ אֶ֫כֶף ] n.m. pressure, sf. אַכְפִּי Jb 33:7
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אכף (ʼâkaph) (H404) — to press.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אָכַף
- (b. h. אָכַף, √כף, v. כפף), denomin. of אוכָּף, to ride on a saddled ass. Nidd. 14ᵃ הא דמֵיכַף וכ׳ Ar. (ed. דמַכַּף = מְאַכַּף Pa.) in the one case it means that he rides on a saddled ass. [מיכף Snh. 36ᵃ, v. כּוּף.]
כַּף ²
- 1. palm, hand. Targ. Y. Gen. III, 19.—Pl. כַּפַּיָּא. Targ. Ps. XCVIII, 8 (v., however, Num. R. s. 13, s. v. חָף).
- 2. border, shore, v. כֵּיפָא.
- 3. bundle, sheaf. Snh. 26ᵇ bot. חד גנב כ׳ Ar. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 6, Var. in Ar. הזמת כ׳, v. הזמת; ed. קבא דשערי) one stole a sheaf.—Pl. (כֵּיפֵי) כַּפִּין. Y. Sabb. III, 5ᵈ bot. מיתן תלתא כ׳ וכ׳ to bring three bunches (of twigs) and put dishes upon them. Gitt. 86ᵇ דביני כיפי, v. דִּידְבָא. Pes. 40ᵃ, v. הֲפַךְ. Ned. 48ᵇ top כי׳ דכיתנא flax bunches, v. שְׁמַט; a. e.—Ib. bot. דשדיא בכיפי, v. כְּפֵילָא.
- 4. top branch of palm trees (v. כִּיפָּה).—Pl. כַּפֵּי. Succ. 32ᵃ ואימא תרתי כ׳ דתמרי perhaps kappoth (Lev. XXIII, 40) means two tops of palm trees? e.g. Leviticus 23:40
- 5. pan, spoon &c. Pes. 28ᵃ, v. חֲטַט I. Sabb. 142ᵇ מנח כ׳ אכיפי (Ms. M. כיפא) placed a ladle on a pile of sheaves. Ḥull. 54ᵃ מאי כ׳ what kappa do yon mean?—כ׳ דידא pan of the fore foot (shoulder), כ׳ דמוחא scull
- 6. shoulder(also of human beings). B. Bath. 96ᵇ top אכ׳ Ms. M. a. Ar. (ed. אכתפא); Sot. 34ᵃ bot. בכ׳ Ar. (ed. לכתפיה); Taan. 23ᵇ אחד כַּפֵּיה Ar. (ed. כתפיה), v. כַּתְּפָא.—Sot. 6ᵇ … אטו בכַפָּהּ תלי לה Ar. (ed. בכיפה) do the young priests (that guard the woman) suspend her by her shoulder (Rashi: by her cap), i.e. can they watch all her movements?
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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