קוף

Likely a borrowing from a language spoken east of Canaan, related to Middle Persian [script needed] (kpyk' /⁠kabīg⁠/, “monkey”) and perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit कपि (kapi, “ape, monkey”). Monkeys have never been native to Canaan.

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /qoːf/, [qoːf]
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /qof/, [qoːf]
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /kof/

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קוֹף • (kof) m (plural indefinite קוֹפִים, singular construct קוֹף־, plural construct קוֹפֵי־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. monkey, ape
   • Tanach, 1 Kings 10:22, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     אַחַת לְשָׁלֹשׁ שָׁנִים תָּבוֹא אֳנִי תַרְשִׁישׁ נֹשְׂאֵת זָהָב וָכֶסֶף שֶׁנְהַבִּים וְקֹפִים וְתֻכִּיִּים׃

     Once every three years, the Tarshish fleet came in, bearing gold and silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

קוּף • (kuf) f (singular construct קוּף־)

1. eye of a needle
2. alternative form of קו״ף

• H6971 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “קוֹף”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 571c
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1337a
• “קוף” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

• קוף on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he