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hebrew #5585 - סָעִיף saiph (a cleft)


Original Word:סָעִיף
Transliteration: saiph
Definition:a cleft, branch
Part of Speech:Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:(saw-eef')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

outmost branch, clift, top

From ca'aph; a fissure (of rocks); also a bough (as subdivided) -- (outmost) branch, clift, top.

see HEBREW ca'aph


Englishman's Concordance

1) cleft, branch
1a) cleft (of a crag)
1b) branches, boughs
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H5586
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1527a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[סָעִיף] noun [masculine]

1cleft.

2branch; —

1cleft of a crag, construct סְעִיף סֶלַעJudges 15:8,11; plural construct וּבִסְעִפֵֿי הַסְּלָעִיםIsaiah 2:21; ׳סְעִיפֵי הַסּIsaiah 57:5.

2branches, boughs, plural construct סְעִפֵֿי הַמֹּרִיָּהIsaiah 17:6 (so divide, Hi Kn Di DrSm xxx Du and others) the boughs of the fruit-tree; suffix סְעִיפֶיהָIsaiah 27:10 (of ruined city; compare קְצִירָהּIsaiah 27:11).


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5585. סְעִיף (saiph) — 6 Occurrences

Judges 15:8
HEB:וַיֵּ֣רֶד וַיֵּ֔שֶׁב בִּסְעִ֖יף סֶ֥לַע עֵיטָֽם׃
NAS: and lived in the cleft of the rock
KJV: and dwelt in the top of the rock
INT: went and lived the cleft of the rock of Etam

Judges 15:11
HEB:מִֽיהוּדָ֗ה אֶל־ סְעִיף֮ סֶ֣לַע עֵיטָם֒
NAS: went down to the cleft of the rock
KJV: went to the top of the rock
INT: of Judah to the cleft of the rock of Etam

Isaiah 2:21
HEB:בְּנִקְר֣וֹת הַצֻּרִ֔ים וּבִסְעִפֵ֖י הַסְּלָעִ֑ים מִפְּנֵ֞י
NAS: of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs
KJV: of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks,
INT: the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs for

Isaiah 17:6
HEB:אַרְבָּעָ֣ה חֲמִשָּׁ֗ה בִּסְעִפֶ֙יהָ֙ פֹּֽרִיָּ֔ה נְאֻם־
NAS: [or] five on the branches of a fruitful tree,
KJV: in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith
INT: Four five the branches of a fruitful Declares

Isaiah 27:10
HEB:יִרְבָּ֖ץ וְכִלָּ֥ה סְעִפֶֽיהָ׃
NAS: and feed on its branches.
KJV: and consume the branches thereof.
INT: will lie and feed branches

Isaiah 57:5
HEB:בַּנְּחָלִ֔ים תַּ֖חַת סְעִפֵ֥י הַסְּלָעִֽים׃
NAS: Under the clefts of the crags?
KJV: in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
INT: the ravines Under the clefts rock

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