Strong's Hebrew #3714 - כָּפִיס kaphis (a rafter)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance beam From an unused root meaning to connect; a girder -- beam. Englishman's Concordance 1) rafter, girder (meaning dubious) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root meaning to connect Same Word by TWOT Number: 1021a Brown-Driver-Briggs כָּפִיס noun masculine apparently (si vera lectio) technical term for some beam in a house, perhaps rafter, or girder (Late Hebrew id., Levy, Jastrow, but according to HoffmZAW ii. 1881, 71 it is changed from oblong block of wood (O.T.) to a building-stone, or brick in Mishna); — only Habakkuk 2:11 for a stone out of the wall crieth out, מֵעֵץ יַעֲנֶנָּה ׳וְכ and a rafter out of the timber-work answereth it. Englishman's Concordance (References)Strong's Hebrew: 3714. כָּפִיס (kaphis) — 1 OccurrenceHabakkuk 2:11 |