Hebrew · Strong's H7858
שֶׁטֶף
shetephsheh'-tef
a deluge (literally or figuratively)
1890 spelling: sheṭeph
Gematria 389· 1,109 mispar gadol
Strong's Dictionary · 1890
a deluge (literally or figuratively)
Rendered in the KJV as
flood, outrageous, overflowing.
- 6occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 5 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 6inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 6 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 6
- בַשֶּׁ֔טֶף1
- הַשֶּׁ֛טֶף1
- וּבְשֶׁ֣טֶף1
- וְשֶׁ֣טֶף1
- לְ֭שֵׁטֶף1
- לַשֶּׁ֣טֶף1
How it is rendered · 6
- [will be] by the flood1
- and [the] flood of1
- and with a flood1
- for the flood1
- the flood1
- to a flood of1
The sense the word carries at each spot: how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 5
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HRd/Ncmsa · 2
- HC/Ncmsc · 1
- HC/R/Ncmsa · 1
- HR/Ncmsc · 1
- HTd/Ncmsa · 1
All 6, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Daniel2 occurrences
- Daniel 9:26בַשֶּׁ֔טֶףvashetefpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singularThen after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.here: [will be] by the flood
- Daniel 11:22הַשֶּׁ֛טֶףhashetefthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularThen a flood of forces will be swept away before him and destroyed, along with a prince of the covenant.here: the flood
