H3943 לָפַת
lâphath — properly, to bend, i.e. (by implication) to clasp; also (reflexively) to turn around or aside
KJV: take hold, turn aside (self).
Occurs 3 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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
Where it occurs
- Judges 16:29 — Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the one with his right hand…
- Job 6:18 — The caravans that travel beside them turn away. They go up into the waste, and perish.
- Ruth 3:8 — At midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.