Lexicon / H3714
כָּפִיס
ka.phis
  • rafter
  • girder

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: rafter

rafter, girder (meaning uncertain)

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: rafter; girder

Root √כפס: כפס כְּפַס Est 1:6 bind, fasten (perh. √ of foll.; cf. 𝔗(so Levy, Jastrow)).

כָּפִיס n.m rafter girder Hb 2:11 . appar. term. techn. for some beam in a house, perhaps, or;—only