Strong’s H3943 · Hebrew
לָפַת
lâphath · law-fath'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning properly, to bend, i.e. (by implication) to clasp; also (reflexively) to turn around or aside
In the King James Version take hold, turn aside (self).
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Judges 16:29And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.
- Ruth 3:8And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
- Job 6:18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.