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לָפַת (lâphath) v (law-fath')
Source: a primitive root;
Meaning: properly, to bend, i.e. (by implication) to clasp; also (reflexively) to turn around or aside
KJV: take hold, turn aside (self).

Brown, Driver, Briggs lexicon entry

l.bw.aa

לָפַת ] vb. twist, turn, grasp with a twisting motion

• Qal Samson grasped the two middle columns.

• Niph. the man started up and twisted himself; the paths of their way [i.e. of the streams] turn aside

Appears in a total of 3 verses:

RUT 3:8

OET-LV: 8 And_he/it_was in_the_middle_of the_night and_he_trembled the_man and_he_twisted and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE a_woman was_lying_down feet_of_his. (RUT_3:8)

OET-RV: 8 But Boaz was startled in the middle of the night, and when he turned over he was stunned to find a woman lying at his feet. (RUT 3:8)

JDG 16:29

OET-LV: 29 And_ Shimshvōn _he_twisted DOM the_two_of the_pillars_of the_middle which the_house was_established on_them and_he_supported_himself on_them one was_in_his_right_of_hand and_one was_in_his_left_of_hand. (JDG_16:29)

OET-RV: 29 Then he took hold of the two centre pillars on which the building depended, and pressed out against them—one in his right hand and one in his left. (JDG 16:29)

JOB 6:18

OET-LV: 18 the_paths_of They_twist their_way_of_their they_go_up in_wasteland and_they_perish. (JOB_6:18)

OET-RV: 18 Their paths twist in their courses,
 ⇔ they go out into the wasteland and end there. (JOB 6:18)

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