H5595 · סָפָה
çâphâh · saw-faw' · consume, destroy, perish
H5595 (çâphâh, pronounced saw-faw') is the Hebrew word סָפָה in Strong’s dictionary: properly, to scrape (literally, to shave. It appears 19 times in 19 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- סָפָה (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- çâphâh
- Pronunciation
- saw-faw'
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- Definition
- 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)
- Rendered in the KJV
- add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
19 occurrences in 19 verses (18 with English words of their own, 1 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “you will be swept away” ×3
- “I will be swept away” ×1
- “I will heap” ×1
- “This will bring disaster” ×1
- “and perish” ×1
- “and to remove” ×1
- “have been swept away” ×1
- “heaping up” ×1
By book
Genesis 4 · Numbers 2 · Deuteronomy 2 · 1 Samuel 3 · 1 Chronicles 1 · Psalms 1 · Proverbs 1 · Isaiah 3 · Jeremiah 1 · Amos 1