Hebrew verb · H5596
סָפַח
saphachsaw-fakh'
to attach; to scar
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çâphach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5596is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5596
properly, to scrape out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association)
The King James renders it: abiding, gather together, cleave, smite with the scab.
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
saphach is rendered "to attach; to scar". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to attach".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 2:36And 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.”’”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
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.”’”
1 Samuel 2:36סְפָחֵ֥נִי
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to attach, and to scar.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to attachStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | Where1 Samuel 2:36And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel… |
| to scarStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he will make scabby1
- and they will attach themselves1
- attach me1
- from having a share1
- pouring out1
- they are joined together1
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 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
- וְנִסְפְּח֖וּ1
- וְשִׂפַּ֣ח1
- יְסֻפָּֽחוּ׃1
- מֵהִסְתַּפֵּ֜חַ1
- מְסַפֵּ֥חַ1
- סְפָחֵ֥נִי1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/VNq3cp1Hc/VNq3cp
- Hc/Vpq3ms1Hc/Vpq3ms
- preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vtcc
- verb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVPi3mp
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HVprmsa
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVqv2ms/Sp1bs
1 Samuel
two uses
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.”’”
- סְפָחֵ֥נִיsefacheniverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: attach me
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.’
- מֵהִסְתַּפֵּ֜חַmehistapeachpreposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from having a share
Job
one use
They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
- יְסֻפָּֽחוּ׃yesupachuverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they are joined together
Isaiah
two uses
the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
- וְשִׂפַּ֣חvesipachHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will make scabby
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.
- וְנִסְפְּח֖וּvenispechuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will attach themselves
Habakkuk
one use
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!
- מְסַפֵּ֥חַmesapeachverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: pouring out
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.