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Lexicon :: Strong's H5595 - sāp̄â

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סָפָה
Transliteration
sāp̄â
Pronunciation
saw-faw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1531

Strong’s Definitions

סָפָה çâphâh, saw-faw'; a primitive root; properly, to scrape (literally, to shave; but usually figuratively) together (i.e. to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e. to scatter, remove, or ruin; intransitively, to perish):—add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x

The KJV translates Strong's H5595 in the following manner: consume (6x), destroy (5x), add (3x), perish (2x), augment (1x), heap (1x), joined (1x), put (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x
The KJV translates Strong's H5595 in the following manner: consume (6x), destroy (5x), add (3x), perish (2x), augment (1x), heap (1x), joined (1x), put (1x).

  1. to sweep or snatch away, catch up, destroy, consume

    1. (Qal)

      1. to be snatched away

      2. to sweep or snatch away

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be swept away, be destroyed

      2. to be caught up, be captured

    3. (Hiphil) to catch up, gather

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סָפָה çâphâh, saw-faw'; a primitive root; properly, to scrape (literally, to shave; but usually figuratively) together (i.e. to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e. to scatter, remove, or ruin; intransitively, to perish):—add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.
STRONGS H5595: Abbreviations
† [סָפָה] verb sweep away or snatch away, catch up (Late Hebrew ספ׳, סָפָא collect (rare), Targum סְפִ׳ (rare), Syriac bdb070501 collect, pick up; Arabic bdb070502 of wind, raise dust and carry it away Lane1377); —
Qal
1. intransitive: Perfect 3rd person feminine singular סָֽפְתָה Jeremiah 12:4 be snatched away (read possibly סָ֫פָה [סוף]).
2. transitive: Imperfect 3rd person feminine singular תִּסְפֶּה Isaiah 7:20 sweep away beard; 2nd person masculine singular תִּסְפֶּה Genesis 18:23, 24 sweep away indiscriminately (good and bad); Infinitive construct סְפוֺת Deuteronomy 29:18 to snatch away the moist with the dry (proverbial expression, compare Dr), suffix לִסְפּוֹתָהּ Psalm 40:15 to snatch it away (i.e. my life). — וְסָפ֫וּ Amos 3:15 see סוף.
Niph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular וְנִסְפָּה consecutive 1 Samuel 26:10; Imperfect 2nd person masculine singular תִּסָּפֶה Genesis 19:15, 17; 1st person singular אֶסָּפֶה 1 Samuel 27:1; 2nd person masculine plural תִּסָּפוּ Numbers 16:26, תִּסָּפ֑וּ 1 Samuel 12:25; Participle נִסְפֶּה Isaiah 13:15; Proverbs 13:23 (1 Chronicles 21:12 see below); —
1. be swept away, destroyed, Genesis 19:15 (בַּעֲוֺן הָעִיר by reason of the iniquity of the city), Genesis 19:17 (both J), Numbers 16:26 (JE) 1 Samuel 12:25; 1 Samuel 26:10 (in battle), + בְּיַד of agent 1 Samuel 27:1; compare מִשְׁפָּט בְּלאֹ נִסְפֶּה וְיֵשׁ Proverbs 13:23 and there is that is swept away for lack of justice. — 1 Chronicles 21:12 read נוּסְךָ (as || 2 Samuel 24:13, see נוּס).
2. be caught up, captured, Isaiah 13:15 (|| נִמְצָא).
Hiph. Imperfect 1st person singular רָעוֺת עָלֵימ אַסְפֶּה Deuteronomy 32:23 I will catch up against them calamities, but read אֹסְפָה I will gather (√ אסף), or < אֹסִפָה (Di Dr BuhlLex 13) I will add, i.e.multiply (√ יסף; see Ges§ 69 h note).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

18:23; 18:24; 19:15; 19:15; 19:17; 19:17

Numbers

16:26; 16:26

Deuteronomy

29:18; 32:23

1 Samuel

12:25; 12:25; 26:10; 26:10; 27:1; 27:1

2 Samuel

24:13

1 Chronicles

21:12; 21:12

Psalms

40:15

Proverbs

13:23; 13:23

Isaiah

7:20; 13:15; 13:15

Jeremiah

12:4

Amos

3:15

H5595

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Strong's Number H5595 matches the Hebrew סָפָה (sāp̄â),
which occurs 20 times in 20 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:23 - And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 - And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters that are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:17 - And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:26 - And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14 - And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19 - and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:23 -
I will heap evils upon them;
I will spend mine arrows upon them:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:25 - But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:10 - And David said, As Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 - And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before thy foes, while the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:14 -
Let them be put to shame and confounded together
That seek after my soul to destroy it:
Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor
That delight in my hurt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:23 -
Much food is in the tillage of the poor;
But there is that is destroyed by reason of injustice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20 - In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:15 - Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:1 - Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye year to year; let the feasts come round:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:1 - Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:21 - Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4 - How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.
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