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Lexicon :: Strong's H5585 - sᵊʿîp̄

Aa
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 BoxJdg 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then three thousand of the men of Judah went down to the crack of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Is it not clear to you that the Philistines are our rulers? What is this you have done to us? And he said to them, I only did to them as they did to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21 - To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 - But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 - For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?
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