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Lexicon :: Strong's H5585 - sᵊʿîp̄

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סְעִיף
Transliteration
sᵊʿîp̄
Pronunciation
saw-eef'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1527a

Strong’s Definitions

סָעִיף çâʻîyph, saw-eef'; from H5586; a fissure (of rocks); also a bough (as subdivided):—(outmost) branch, clift, top.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's H5585 in the following manner: top (3x), branches (2x), clifts (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's H5585 in the following manner: top (3x), branches (2x), clifts (1x).

  1. cleft, branch

    1. cleft (of a crag)

    2. branches, boughs

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סָעִיף çâʻîyph, saw-eef'; from H5586; a fissure (of rocks); also a bough (as subdivided):—(outmost) branch, clift, top.
STRONGS H5585: Abbreviations
† [סָעִיף] noun [masculine] 1 cleft. 2 branch; —
1. cleft of a crag, construct סְעִיף סֶלַע Judges 15:8, 11; plural construct וּבִסְעִפֵֿי הַסְּלָעִים Isaiah 2:21; סְעִיפֵי הַסּ׳ Isaiah 57:5.
2. branches, boughs, plural construct סְעִפֵֿי הַמֹּרִיָּה Isaiah 17:6 (so divide, Hi Kn Di DrSm xxx Du and others) the boughs of the fruit-tree; suffix סְעִיפֶיהָ Isaiah 27:10 (of ruined city; compare קְצִירָהּ Isaiah 27:11).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

15:8; 15:11

Isaiah

2:21; 17:6; 27:10; 27:11; 57:5

H5585

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5585 matches the Hebrew סְעִיף (sᵊʿîp̄),
which occurs 6 times in 6 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so have I done to them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21 - to enter the caverns of the rocks
and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the LORD,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to terrify the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 - Gleanings will be left in it,
as when an olive tree is beaten—
two or three berries
in the top of the highest bough,
four or five
on the branches of a fruit tree,
declares the LORD God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 - For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - you who burn with lust among the oaks,[fn]
under every green tree,
who slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?
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