Definition
or שָׂפַח; (Isaiah 3:17), a primitive root; properly, to scrape out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association)
Traditional renderings: abiding, gather together, cleave, smite with the scab.
Traditional renderings: abiding, gather together, cleave, smite with the scab.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders סָפַח:
- προστίθημιprostithēmi“to add (to)”50%
- ταπεινόωtapeinoō“to humble”50%
Usage patterns
Occurrences
6 total
- 1 Samuel 2:36סְפָחֵ֥נִי · appoint meAnd 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.”’”
- 1 Samuel 26:19מֵהִסְתַּפֵּ֜חַ · from sharingNow 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 30:7יְסֻפָּֽחוּ׃ · and huddledThey cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
- Isaiah 3:17וְשִׂפַּ֣ח · will bring sores…the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
- Isaiah 14:1וְנִסְפְּח֖וּ · and uniteFor 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.
- Habakkuk 2:15מְסַפֵּ֥חַ · pouring itWoe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!