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חָפַץ

ch.ph

to sway

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Strong’s H2654bVerb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

it stiffens1

In the text

Job 40:17יַחְפֹּץ
His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[חָפַץ] vb. bend down—only Qal Jb 40:17

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.