חָשִׂף
châsiph · H2835 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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little flock
Small group of domestic animals
Examples1 Kings 20:27 And the sons of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and they went to meet them; and the sons of Israel camped opposite them like two little flocks of goats, while the Arameans filled the country.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵזgoat, goat's hair 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שְׁנַיִםtwo 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- עֵדֶר ʻêder · H5739 · flock, herd, drove
- Common Hebrew term for flock/herd without the diminutive nuance; both refer to a group of animals (or metaphorically people) but עֵדֶר is the standard term while חָשִׂף emphasizes smallness
- צֹאן tsôʼn · H6629 · flock, small cattle, sheep and goats
- The most common Hebrew word for flock of sheep/goats; overlaps semantically with חָשִׂף but lacks the specific diminutive connotation of 'little'
In the other Testament 1 word
- ποίμνιον poímnion · G4168 · people who are like a flock
- Greek translation equivalent for 'little flock' (diminutive form); used in Luke 12:32 'Fear not, little flock' which matches the sense of a small group of people under care/protection
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Groups001001003004
- חָשִׂף denotes a small flock or company, used of Israel's forces likened to two little flocks of goats camped opposite the vast Aramean army (1 Kings 20:27).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2835. chasiph [חָשִׂיף] noun masculine only plural construct עִזִּים חֲשִׂפֵי כִּשְׁנֵי…
[חָשִׂיף] noun masculine only plural construct עִזִּים חֲשִׂפֵי כִּשְׁנֵי 1Ki 20:27 ᵑ7 ᵑ9 ᵐ5 and most, two little flocks of goats (חשׂיף = segregatum, strictly what is stripped off), but this without other evidence than authority of the Vrss; Klo proposes עִזִּים מִשְׁמַּט בַּשְּׁפִי on the bare height, after the manner of goats.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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