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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 - Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 - As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:17 - And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:26 - And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14 - And behold, you have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel!

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19 - one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:23 - “‘And I will heap disasters upon them;
I will spend my arrows on them;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:25 - But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:10 - And David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 - Then David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall 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 of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the LORD, pestilence on the land, with the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:14 - Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether
who seek to snatch away my life;
let those be turned back and brought to dishonor
who delight in my hurt!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:23 - The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food,
but it is swept away through injustice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20 - In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River[fn]—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:15 - Whoever is found will be thrust through,
and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:1 - Ah, Ariel, Ariel,
the city where David encamped!
Add year to year;
let the feasts run their round.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:1 - “Ah, stubborn children,” declares the LORD,
“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make an alliance,[fn] 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 says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4 - How long will the land mourn
and the grass of every field wither?
For the evil of those who dwell in it
the beasts and the birds are swept away,
because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”
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