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כָּפָה

ka.phah

to subdue

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Strong’s H3711Verb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

it subdues1

In the text

Proverbs 21:14יִכְפֶּה
A gift in secret soothes anger, and a covert bribe pacifies great wrath.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[כָּפָה] vb. prob. subdue;—only Qal Pr 21:14

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.