Strong's #7602: sha'aph (pronounced shaw-af')

a primitive root; to inhale eagerly; figuratively, to cover; by implication, to be angry; also to hasten:--desire (earnestly), devour, haste, pant, snuff up, swallow up.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shâ'aph

1) to gasp, pant, pant after, long for, breathe heavily

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to gasp, pant after, snuff up

1a2) to gasp or pant (with desire), pant after, be eager for

1a3) to thirst for one' s blood (from actions of animals) (figuratively)

2) to crush, trample, trample upon

2a) (Qal) to trample upon, crush

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 2305, 2306

Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

 

Job 5:5: "it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance."
Job 7:2: "As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as a hireling looketh for the reward of his work:"
Job 36:20: " Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place."
Psalms 56:1: "unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth"
Psalms 56:2: "Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High."
Psalms 57:3: "from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth"
Psalms 119:131: "I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments."
Ecclesiastes 1:5: "also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he"
Isaiah 42:14: "and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once."
Jeremiah 2:24: "A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion"
Jeremiah 14:6: "did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail,"
Ezekiel 36:3: "GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side,"
Amos 2:7: " That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way"
Amos 8:4: "Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,"