Strong's Hebrew · H3700
H3700 kâçaph
כָּסַף
kaw-saf'
to long
Looking for Greek G3700 optánomai? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H3700. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
kâçaph appears 6 times in Scripture, in Genesis, Job, Psalms and Zephaniah. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, to become pale, i.e. (by implication) to pine after; also to fear
In the King James Version
(have) desire, be greedy, long, sore.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 6 times in Scripture
“Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,”
“like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.”
“Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?””
“You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands.”
“My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
