# H3943 לָפַת

לָפַת (lâphath), Strong’s H3943: 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.

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*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.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/16?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/6?v=18) — The caravans that travel beside them turn away. They go up into the waste, and perish.
- [Ruth 3:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ruth/3?v=8) — At midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.