Strong's Hebrew · H7779

H7779 shûwph

שׁוּף

shoof

to bruise

shûwph appears 4 times in Scripture, in Genesis 3:15, Job 9:17 and Psalms 139:11. In the Doxa app, open each of these verses, keep your notes on them, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

properly, to gape, i.e. snap at; figuratively, to overwhelm

In the King James Version

break, bruise, cover.

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 4 times in Scripture

Psalms 139:11

“If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—”

Genesis 3:15

“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.””

Job 9:17

“For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.”

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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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