Strong's Hebrew · H5596

H5596 çâphach

סָפַח

saw-fakh'

to attach

Looking for Greek G5596 psōmíon? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H5596. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.

çâphach appears 6 times in Scripture, in 1 Samuel, Job, Isaiah and Habakkuk. 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 out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association)

In the King James Version

abiding, gather together, cleave, smite with the scab.

Derivation

or שָׂפַח; (Isaiah 3:17), a primitive root;

Appears 6 times in Scripture

Isaiah 3:17

“the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.””

Habakkuk 2:15

“Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!”

1 Samuel 26:19

“Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’”

Job 30:7

“They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.”

Isaiah 14:1

“For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.”

1 Samuel 2:36

“And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’””

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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).

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