King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H5595
Transliteration: saphah
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-faw')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to sweep or snatch away, catch up
Meaning: to sweep or snatch away, catch up
Word Summary
saphah: to sweep or snatch away, catch up
Original Word: סָפָהTransliteration: saphah
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-faw')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to sweep or snatch away, catch up
Meaning: to sweep or snatch away, catch up
Strong's Concordance
add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, putA 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5595. saphah
[סָפָה] verb sweep away or snatch away, catch up (Late Hebrew סָפָא ׳ספ, collect (rare), ׳סְפִ ᵑ7 (rare), Syriac collect, pick up; Arabic of wind, raise dust and carry it away Lane1377); —
Qal 1. intransitive: Perfect3feminine singular סָֽפְתָה Jeremiah 12:4 be snatched away (read possibly סָ֫פָה [סוף]).
2 transitive: Imperfect3feminine singular תִּסְמֶּה Isaiah 7:20 sweep away beard; 2 masculine singular תִּסְמֶּה Genesis 18:23-24, sweep away indiscriminately (good and bad); Infinitive construct סְפוֺת Deuteronomy 29:18 to snatch away the moist with the dry (proverb. expression, compare Dr), suffix לִסְמּוֺתָהּ Psalm 40:15 to snatch it away (i.e. my life). — וְסָפ֫וּ Amos 3:15 see סוף.
Niph`al Pf .3masculine singular וְנִסְמָּה consecutive 1 Samuel 26:10; Imperfect2masculine singularתִּסָּפֶה Genesis 19:15, 17; 1singular אֶסָּפֶה 1 Samuel 27:1-2;masculine plural תִּסָּפוּ Numbers 16:26, תִּסָּפ֑וּ 1 Samuel 12:25; Participle נִסְמֶּה Isaiah 13:15; Proverbs 13:23 (1 Chronicles 21:12 see below); —
1 be swept away, destroyed, Genesis 19:15 (הָעִיר בַּעֲוֺן by reason of the iniquity of the city), 19:17 (both J), Numbers 16:26 (JE) 1 Samuel 12:25; 26:10 (in battle), + בְּיַד of agent 27:1; compare מִשְׁמָּט בְּלאֹ נִסְמֶּה 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`il Imperfect1singular רָעוֺת עָלֵימוֺ אֵסְמֶּה 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§ 69h, note).