Strong's Definition
a primitive root; properly, to bend, i.e. (by implication) to clasp; also (reflexively) to turn around or aside
KJV Usage: take hold, turn aside (self)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
לָפַת (la.phat) — to twist. 1) to twist, grasp, turn, grasp with a twisting motion 1a) (Qal) to grasp 1b) (Niphal) to twist, weave, wind
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Stance | verb qal, verb nif
to feel around = action by which humans extend their arms and grope with their hands trying to find something to touch or grasp
Change | verb nif
Collocation: לפת אָרְחֹות דֶּרֶךְ
to change direction literally: to twist the course of one's way; hence: = action by which humans change direction
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[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
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