King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7829
Transliteration: shachepheth
Phonetic Spelling: (shakh-eh'-feth)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: (a wasting disease) consumption
Meaning: (a wasting disease) consumption
Word Summary
shachepheth: (a wasting disease) consumption
Original Word: שַׁחֶפֶתTransliteration: shachepheth
Phonetic Spelling: (shakh-eh'-feth)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: (a wasting disease) consumption
Meaning: (a wasting disease) consumption
Strong's Concordance
consumption From the same as shachaph; emaciation -- consumption.
see HEBREW shachaph
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7829. shachepheth
שַׁחֶ֫פֶת noun feminine wasting disease, consumption Deuteronomy 28:22; Leviticus 26:16 (H).
שׁחץ (√ of following; compare Late Hebrew act proudly, and derivatives; Aramaic שַׁחְצָא lion ( Psalm 17:12 editions); Ethiopic be insolent; Arabic is rise, be elevated; bulky, man of rank, but = שׁ ?).