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Strong's #5603: caphan (pronounced saw-fan')

a primitive root; to hide by covering; specifically, to roof (passive participle as noun, a roof) or wainscot; figuratively, to reserve:--cieled, cover, seated.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

sâphan

1) to cover, cover in, wainscotted, covered with boards or panelling

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to cover in, panel

1a2) covered, panelled (participle)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

Deuteronomy 33:21: "there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed"
1 Kings 6:9: "the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards"
1 Kings 7:3: " And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on"
1 Kings 7:7: "where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor"
Jeremiah 22:14: "chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion."
Haggai 1:4: "Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?"









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