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Strong's #5596: caphach (pronounced saw-fakh')

or saphach (Isaiah 3:17) {saw-fakh'}; a primitive root; properly, to scrape out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association):--abiding, gather together, cleave, smite with the scab.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׂ /

sâphach / śâphach

1) to join, attach to, join together

1a) (Qal) to join, attach to

1b) (Niphal) to attach oneself

1c) (Piel) joining (participle)

1d) (Pual) to be joined together, hold oneself together

1e) (Hithpael) to join oneself

2) (Piel) to cause a scab upon, smite with scab

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1532, 1534



Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

1 Samuel 2:36: "and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices,"
1 Samuel 26:19: "for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying,"
Job 30:7: "they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together."
Isaiah 3:17: "Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts."
Isaiah 14:1: "and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob."
Habakkuk 2:15: "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that"









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