Hebrew verb · H7857
שָׁטַף
shataphshaw-taf'
to overflow
31 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâṭaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7857is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 29spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7857
to gush; by implication, to inundate, cleanse; by analogy, to gallop, conquer
The King James renders it: drown, (over-) flow(-whelm, rinse, run, rush, (throughly) wash (away).
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
shataph is rendered "to overflow". It stands 31 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 6:28The clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-nine different ways.
The first use
The clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.
Leviticus 6:28וְשֻׁטַּ֖ף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's thirty-one uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- overflowing9
- it will overflow2
- about to overflow1
- and he will overflow1
- and I washed off1
- and it will be rinsed1
- and it will overflow1
- and someone washed off1
- and they may overflow1
- he has rinsed1
- it has overflowed me1
- it overflow me1
and 10 more, 31 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁטַח | shatach | to spread | Uses6 |
The words it stands beside
All 31, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
29 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
- שׁוֹטֵף֙2
- שָׁטַ֣ף2
- הַשּׁוֹטֵ֥ף1
- וָאֶשְׁטֹ֥ף1
- וַיִּשְׁטֹ֨ף1
- וְיִשְׁטְפוּ֙1
- וְשָׁטַ֣ף1
- וְשָׁטַ֥ף1
- וְשֻׁטַּ֖ף1
- יִשְׁט֑וֹף1
- יִשָּׁטֵ֖ף1
- יִ֫שְׁטֹ֥פוּ1
and 17 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular10HVqrmsa
- Hc/Vqq3ms2Hc/Vqq3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqp3ms
- Hc/VPq3ms1Hc/VPq3ms
- HC/Vqu3mp1HC/Vqu3mp
- Hc/Vqw1cs1Hc/Vqw1cs
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HTd/Vqrmsa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVNi3mp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqi3fs
Leviticus
three uses
The clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.
- וְשֻׁטַּ֖ףveshutafHc/VPq3mstagged: and it will be rinsed
If the man with the discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands with water, the one who was touched must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
- שָׁטַ֣ףshatafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has rinsed
Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.
- יִשָּׁטֵ֖ףyishatefverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be rinsed
1 Kings
one use
And the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.
- וַיִּשְׁטֹ֨ףvaiyishtofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and someone washed off
2 Chronicles
one use
Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.
- הַשּׁוֹטֵ֥ףhashotefthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which flowed
Job
one use
as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
- תִּשְׁטֹֽף־tishtof-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it washes off
Psalms
four uses
I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
- שְׁטָפָֽתְנִי׃shetafateniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it has overflowed me
Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
- תִּשְׁטְפֵ֤נִי׀tishtefeniverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it overflow me
When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”
- יִ֫שְׁטֹ֥פוּyishtofuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they overflowed
then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,
- שְׁטָפ֑וּנוּshetafunuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: they had overflowed us
Song of Solomon
one use
Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.
- יִשְׁטְפ֑וּהָyishtefuhaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: they will overflow it
Isaiah
nine uses
It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!
- שָׁטַ֣ףshatafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will overflow
Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
- שׁוֹטֵ֥ףshotefverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to overflow
Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.
- שֹׁטְפִ֛יםshotefimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: overflowing
For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
- שׁוֹטֵ֤ףshotefverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: overflowing
I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.
- יִשְׁטֹֽפוּ׃yishtofuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will overflow
Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.
- שׁוֹטֵף֙shotefverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: overflowing
His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
- שׁוֹטֵף֙shotefverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: overflowing
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.
- יִשְׁטְפ֑וּךָyishtefukhaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: they will overflow you
For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees.
- שׁוֹטֵ֛ףshotefverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: overflowing
Jeremiah
three uses
I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
- שׁוֹטֵ֖ףshotefverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: rushes
This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail
- שׁוֹטֵ֔ףshotefverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: overflowing
- וְיִשְׁטְפוּ֙veyishtefuHC/Vqu3mptagged: and they may overflow
Ezekiel
four uses
tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth.
- שׁוֹטֵ֗ףshotefverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: overflowing
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.
- שֹׁטֵף֙shotefverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: overflowing
Then I bathed you with water, rinsed off your blood, and anointed you with oil.
- וָאֶשְׁטֹ֥ףvaeshtofHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I washed off
I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
- שׁוֹטֵף֩shotefverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: overflowing
Daniel
four uses
But his sons will stir up strife and assemble a great army, which will advance forcefully, sweeping through like a flood, and will again carry the battle as far as his fortress.
- וְשָׁטַ֣ףveshatafHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will overflow
Then a flood of forces will be swept away before him and destroyed, along with a prince of the covenant.
- יִשָּׁטְפ֥וּyishatefuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be swept away
Those who eat from his provisions will seek to destroy him; his army will be swept away, and many will fall slain.
- יִשְׁט֑וֹףyishtofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will overflow
At the time of the end, the king of the South will engage him in battle, but the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots, horsemen, and many ships, invading many countries and sweeping through them like a flood.
- וְשָׁטַ֥ףveshatafHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will overflow
The letters
Gematria 389· 1,109 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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.
