Strong's #3943: laphath (pronounced law-fath')

a primitive root; properly, to bend, i.e. (by implication) to clasp; also (reflexively) to turn around or aside:--take hold, turn aside (self).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

lâphath

1) to twist, grasp, turn, grasp with a twisting motion

1a) (Qal) to grasp

1b) (Niphal) to twist, weave, wind

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

Judges 16:29: "And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which"
Ruth 3:8: "that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay"
Job 6:18: "The paths are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish."