Strong's Hebrew · H5595
H5595 çâphâh
סָפָה
saw-faw'
to snatch
Looking for Greek G5595 psōmízō? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H5595. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
çâphâh appears 19 times in Scripture, including Genesis 18:23 and Numbers 16:26. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
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)
In the King James Version
add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 19 times in Scripture
“Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?”
“At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.””
“What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there?”
“I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.”
“As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!””
“because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.”
“On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.”
“Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.”
“But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.””
“And he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.””
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
