Bible word study

Qaphats (Strong’s H7092): Meaning in the Bible

Qaphats (קָפַץ) is the Hebrew word numbered H7092 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to draw together, i.e. close; by implication, to leap (by contracting the limbs); specifically, to die (from gathering up the feet). In the King James Bible it is translated shut (up), skip, stop, take out of the way..

• Original wordקָפַץ
• Transliterationqâphats
• Pronunciationkaw-fats'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH7092
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Qaphats appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Qaphats (H7092) stands behind 7 English renderings in 7 verses across 5 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Job (2), Psalms (2), Deuteronomy (1).

How the King James Bible renders Qaphats, by count

• shut2 of 7 (29 percent)
• out1 of 7 (14 percent)
• skipping1 of 7 (14 percent)
• stop1 of 7 (14 percent)
• stoppeth1 of 7 (14 percent)
• up1 of 7 (14 percent)

Three places to read Qaphats

• Deuteronomy 15:7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
• Job 24:24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
• Psalms 107:42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Qaphats in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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