Strong's #5595: caphah (pronounced saw-faw')

a primitive root; 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):--add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

sâphâh

1) to sweep or snatch away, catch up, destroy, consume

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be snatched away

1a2) to sweep or snatch away

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be swept away, be destroyed

1b2) to be caught up, be captured

1c) (Hiphil) to catch up, gather

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 20 times:

 

Genesis 18:23: "drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?"
Genesis 18:24: "within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for"
Genesis 19:15: "daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
Genesis 19:17: "the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed."
Numbers 16:26: "men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins."
Numbers 32:14: "in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce"
Deuteronomy 29:19: "in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:"
Deuteronomy 32:23: " I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows"
1 Samuel 12:25: "But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king."
1 Samuel 26:10: "to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish."
1 Samuel 27:1: "in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul:"
1 Chronicles 21:12: "or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword"
Psalms 40:14: "together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish"
Proverbs 13:23: "is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment."
Isaiah 7:20: "and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard."
Isaiah 13:15: "that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword."
Isaiah 29:1: "the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill"
Isaiah 30:1: "but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:"
Jeremiah 7:21: "of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat"
Jeremiah 12:4: "wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because"