Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5585
סָעִיף
saiphsaw-eef'
cleft
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çâʻîyph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5585is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5585
a fissure (of rocks); also a bough (as subdivided)
The King James renders it: (outmost) branch, clift, top.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
saiph is rendered "cleft". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 15:8And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
Judges 15:8בִּסְעִ֖יף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and in clefts of1
- branches its1
- cleft of1
- clefts of1
- in cleft of1
- on branches its1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| סָעִף | saiph | division | Uses3 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בִּסְעִ֖יף1
- בִּסְעִפֶ֙יהָ֙1
- וּבִסְעִפֵ֖י1
- סְעִיף֮1
- סְעִפֵ֥י1
- סְעִפֶֽיהָ׃1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncmpc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3fs
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HR/Ncmpc/Sp3fs
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
Judges
two uses
And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
- בִּסְעִ֖יףbisifpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in cleft of
In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
- סְעִיף֮seifnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cleft of
Isaiah
four uses
They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
- וּבִסְעִפֵ֖יuvisifeiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and in clefts of
Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
- בִּסְעִפֶ֙יהָ֙bisifeihapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: on branches its
For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
- סְעִפֶֽיהָ׃seifeihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: branches its
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
- סְעִפֵ֥יseifeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: clefts of
The letters
Gematria 220· 940 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.