Strong's #7779: shuwph (pronounced shoof)

a primitive root; properly, to gape, i.e. snap at; figuratively, to overwhelm:--break, bruise, cover.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shûph

1) to bruise, crush, gape upon, desire?, seize?, strike out?

1a) (Qal) to fall upon, bruise

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Genesis 3:15: "thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
Genesis 3:15: "shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
Job 9:17: "For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause."
Psalms 139:11: "If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about"