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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 - So he attacked the Philistines with great fury and killed many of them. Then he went to live in a cave in the rock of Etam.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - So 3,000 men of Judah went down to get Samson at the cave in the rock of Etam. They said to Samson, “Don’t you realize the Philistines rule over us? What are you doing to us?”
But Samson replied, “I only did to them what they did to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21 - while they crawl away into caverns
and hide among the jagged rocks in the cliffs.
They will try to escape the terror of the LORD
and the glory of his majesty
as he rises to shake the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 - Only a few of its people will be left,
like stray olives left on a tree after the harvest.
Only two or three remain in the highest branches,
four or five scattered here and there on the limbs,”
declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 - The fortified towns will be silent and empty,
the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown with weeds.
Calves will graze there,
chewing on twigs and branches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - You worship your idols with great passion
beneath the oaks and under every green tree.
You sacrifice your children down in the valleys,
among the jagged rocks in the cliffs.
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