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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 came near and said, “Will You indeed sweep H5595 away H5595 the righteous with the wicked?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - “Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will You indeed sweep H5595 it away H5595 and not [fn]spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 -

Now at the [fn]breaking of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept H5595 away H5595 in the [fn]punishment of the city.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:17 - Now it happened, as they brought them outside, [fn]one said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay [fn]anywhere in the valley; escape to the [fn]mountains, lest you be swept H5595 away H5595.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:26 - and he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Turn aside now from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest you be swept H5595 away H5595 in all their sin.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14 - “Now behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to add H5595 still more to the burning anger of Yahweh against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19 - “And it will be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will [fn]bless himself in his heart, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order [fn]to sweep H5595 away H5595 the watered land with the dry.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:23 -

‘I will heap H5595 calamities on them;

I will exhaust My arrows on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:25 - “But if you still do wickedly, both you and your king will be swept H5595 away H5595.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:10 - David also said, “As Yahweh lives, surely Yahweh will smite him, or his day will come that he dies, or he will go down into battle and be swept H5595 away H5595.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 -

Then David said in his heart, “Now I will be swept H5595 away H5595 one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should utterly escape into the land of the Philistines. Saul then will despair of searching for me anymore in all the territory of Israel, and I will escape from his hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - either three years of famine, or three months to be swept H5595 away H5595 before your adversaries, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ So now, see what word I should return to Him who sent me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:14 -

Let those be ashamed and humiliated together

Who seek my [fn]life to sweep H5595 it away H5595;

Let those be turned back and dishonored

Who delight in [fn]evil against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:23 -

Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor,

But [fn]it is swept H5595 away H5595 by injustice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20 -

In that day, the Lord will shave with a razor—one hired from regions beyond the [fn]River (that is, the king of Assyria)—the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove H5595 the beard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:15 -

Anyone who is found will be pierced through,

And anyone who is captured H5595 will fall by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:1 -

Woe, O [fn]Ariel, [fn]Ariel the city where David once camped!

Add year to year, [fn]observe your feasts on schedule.

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“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares Yahweh,

“Who execute counsel, but not Mine,

And [fn]make an alliance, but not of My Spirit,

In order to add H5595 sin to sin,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:21 -

Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4 -

How long is the land to mourn

And the plants of every field to dry up?

Because of the evil of those who inhabit it,

Animals and birds have been swept H5595 away H5595,

Because men have said, “He will not see our latter ending.”

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