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Hebrew verb · H5595

סָפָה

saphahsaw-faw'

to snatch

19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: çâphâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5595is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 18
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5595

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)

The King James renders it: add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.

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

saphah is rendered "to snatch". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 18:23Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
  • The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.

The first use

Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Genesis 18:23תִּסְפֶּ֔ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • you should be swept away3
  • to add2
  • will you sweep away2
  • and he will be carried away1
  • and people will snatch away1
  • being swept away1
  • I will be swept away1
  • I will catch up1
  • is swept away1
  • it has dwindled away1
  • it will sweep away1
  • the is captured1

and 3 more, 19 uses in all

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.

All 19, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

18 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

  • סְפ֥וֹת2
  • אֶסָּפֶ֥ה1
  • אַסְפֶּ֥ה1
  • הַנִּסְפֶּ֖ה1
  • וְנִסְפָּֽה׃1
  • וְסָפ֛וּ1
  • לִסְפּ֣וֹת1
  • לִסְפּ֫וֹתָ֥הּ1
  • נִסְפֶּ֥ה1
  • נִ֝סְפֶּ֗ה1
  • סָפְתָ֤ה1
  • תִּסְפֶּ֔ה1

and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural2HVNi2mp
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVNi2ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular2HVNrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HVqcc
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqi2ms
  • Hc/VNq3ms1Hc/VNq3ms
  • Hc/Vqq3cp1Hc/Vqq3cp
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HR/Vqcc/Sp3fs
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular1HTd/VNrmsa
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVhi1cs
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVNi1cs

Genesis

four uses
  • Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

    Genesis 18:23

    • תִּסְפֶּ֔הtispehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you sweep away
  • 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?

    Genesis 18:24

    • תִּסְפֶּה֙tispehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you sweep away
  • 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.”

    Genesis 19:15

    • תִּסָּפֶ֖הtisapehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you should be swept away
  • 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!”

    Genesis 19:17

    • תִּסָּפֶֽה׃tisapehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you should be swept away

Numbers

two uses
  • 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.”

    Numbers 16:26

    • תִּסָּפ֖וּtisafuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you should be swept away
  • 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.

    Numbers 32:14

    • לִסְפּ֣וֹתlispotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to add

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • 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.

    Deuteronomy 29:19

    • סְפ֥וֹתsefotverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sweep away
  • I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

    Deuteronomy 32:23

    • אַסְפֶּ֥הʾaspehverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will catch up

1 Samuel

three uses
  • But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”

    1 Samuel 12:25

    • תִּסָּפֽוּ׃ פtisafuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will be swept away
  • David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

    1 Samuel 26:10

    • וְנִסְפָּֽה׃venispahHc/VNq3mstagged: and he will be carried away
  • David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”

    1 Samuel 27:1

    • אֶסָּפֶ֥הʾesapehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will be swept away

1 Chronicles

one use
  • between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

    1 Chronicles 21:12

    • נִסְפֶּ֥הnispehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: being swept away

Psalms

one use
  • May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.

    Psalms 40:14

    • לִסְפּ֫וֹתָ֥הּlispotahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to snatch away it

Proverbs

one use
  • Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.

    Proverbs 13:23

    • נִ֝סְפֶּ֗הnispehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: is swept away

Isaiah

three uses
  • 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.

    Isaiah 7:20

    • תִּסְפֶּֽה׃ סtispehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will sweep away
  • Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

    Isaiah 13:15

    • הַנִּסְפֶּ֖הhanispehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the is captured
  • “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.

    Isaiah 30:1

    • סְפ֥וֹתsefotverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to add

Jeremiah

one use
  • How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

    Jeremiah 12:4

    • סָפְתָ֤הsafetahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has dwindled away

Amos

one use
  • I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.

    Amos 3:15

    • וְסָפ֛וּvesafuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and people will snatch away

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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