6971. qoph

Lexicon

qoph: Ape

Original Word: קוֹף
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: qowph
Pronunciation: kohf
Phonetic Spelling: (kofe)
KJV: ape
NASB: apes
Word Origin: [probably of foreign origin]

1. a monkey

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

ape

Or qoph {kofe}; probably of foreign origin; a monkey -- ape.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of foreign origin
Definition
an ape
NASB Translation
apes (2).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[קוֺף] noun [masculine] ape, so Vrss, ᵐ5 πίθηκοι (omitted by ᵐ5^B in Kings) (foreign word; probably = Sanskrit kapi, id.; Egyptian as loan-word gôfë WMM^As.u.Eur.95, gi'f Erman^{ZMG xlvi (1892), 121}; Greek κῆβος, κῆπος is of Egyptian origin according to Lewy^{Fremdw. 6}); — plural קֹפִים 1 Kings 10:22 = קוֺפִים2Chronicles 9:21, brought to Solomon [from southeast] by Phoenician fleet; compare Arabic proverb 'donum regionis Jemen simiae sunt,' Frey^{Provv.iii.3160}.

Forms and Transliterations

וְקֹפִ֖ים וְקוֹפִ֖ים וקופים וקפים vekoFim wə·qō·p̄îm wə·qō·w·p̄îm wəqōp̄îm wəqōwp̄îm

Englishman's Concordance

1 Kings 10:22
HEB: וָכֶ֔סֶף שֶׁנְהַבִּ֥ים וְקֹפִ֖ים וְתֻכִּיִּֽים׃
NAS: ivory and apes and peacocks.
KJV: ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
INT: and silver ivory and apes and peacocks

2 Chronicles 9:21
HEB: וָכֶ֔סֶף שֶׁנְהַבִּ֥ים וְקוֹפִ֖ים וְתוּכִּיִּֽים׃ פ
NAS: ivory and apes and peacocks.
KJV: ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
INT: and silver ivory and apes and peacocks

2 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 6971
2 Occurrences

wə·qō·p̄îm — 2 Occ.