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Strong's #5585: ca`iyph (pronounced saw-eef')

from 5586; a fissure (of rocks); also a bough (as subdivided):--(outmost) branch, clift, top.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

sâ‛ı̂yph

1) cleft, branch

1a) cleft (of a crag)

1b) branches, boughs

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H5586



Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

Judges 15:8: "slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam."
Judges 15:11: "of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said"
Isaiah 2:21: "To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear"
Isaiah 17:6: "four or five in the outermost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel."
Isaiah 27:10: "and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches"
Isaiah 57:5: "the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?"









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