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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 - Then he struck them [fn]without mercy, a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Have you not known that the Philistines are rulers over us? What is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21 -

To go into the caverns of the rocks and into the clefts of the [ragged] cliffs [as they flee]

From the terror and dread of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty,

When He arises to terrify the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 -

“Yet gleanings will be left in the land [of Israel] like the shaking of the olive tree,

Two or three olives on the topmost branch,

Four or five on the [outermost] branches of the fruitful tree,”

Declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 -

For the fortified city is isolated,

A settlement deserted and abandoned like the desert;

There the calf will graze,

And there it will lie down and [fn]feed on its branches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 -

Who inflame yourselves [with lust in pagan rites] among the oaks (terebinth trees),

Under every green and leafy tree,

Who slaughter the children [in sacrifice] in the ravines

Under the clefts of the rocks?

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