סָפַח
çâphach · H5596 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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to attach oneself to, to cleave to, to unite with, to join
Action by which humans join another group of humans
Examples1 Samuel 26:19 “Now then, please let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant. If the LORD has incited you against me, may He accept an offering; but if it is people, cursed are they before the LORD, because they have driven me out today so that I would have no share in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
Isaiah 14:1 When the LORD has compassion on Jacob and again chooses Israel, and settles them on their own land, then strangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
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to huddle together
Actions by which humans group together in a certain location, probably in close proximity to one another
ExamplesJob 30:7 “Among the bushes they cry out; Under the weeds they are gathered together.
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Literally: to attach wrath; hence: action by which humans cause other humans to perform a certain action and so become deserving of (God's) wrath (to mix in (God's) wrath)
ExamplesHabakkuk 2:15 “Woe to him who makes his neighbor drink; To you who mix in your venom even to make your neighbors drunk, So as to look at their genitalia!
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to appoint, to assign
Causative action by which humans in a position of authority give other humans a particular role or responsibility
Examples1 Samuel 2:36 ‘And everyone who is left in your house will come to bow down to him for a silver coin or a loaf of bread and say, “Please assign me to one of the priest’s offices so that I may eat a piece of bread.”’”
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
6 occurrences in 5 groups
- Not stated: they 2
- אֲדֹנָיLord 1
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- חֵמָהwrath, fury 1
- קׇדְקֹדscalp 1
- נִיme 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 5 groups
- אֵלto, toward+ כְּהֻנָּהpriesthood 1
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ בַּיִתhouse, household 1
- תַּחַתunder, below, instead of+ חָרוּלweeds 1
- בin/on/with+ נַחֲלָהinheritance, heritage 1
- לto/for+ אָכַלto eat, to devour 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 1
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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Semantic domains 5 entries
- Associate002003002002
- Its most frequent sense, to join or attach oneself to, as when Job's outcasts are gathered together under the weeds, or foreigners are said to attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
- Bear002003003003
- A broader attested sense of being borne along or carried with a group, not directly shown by the citations sampled here.
- Role002002002008
- Another attested sense, to be assigned to a position, as when a displaced descendant of Eli begs to be assigned to one of the priest's offices for a piece of bread.
- Impact002001001024
- Another attested sense, to afflict with a scab, as when the LORD is said to afflict the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs.
- Uncover002003001018
- A broader attested sense connected to exposing or baring, not directly shown by the citations sampled here.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5596. saphach I. [סָפח] verb join, attach to; — Qal Imperative masculine singular…
I. [סָפח] verb join, attach to; —
Qal Imperative masculine singular suffixאֶלוֿגו נָא ׳סְפָחֵ֫נִי 1Sa 2:36 attach me, pray, to one of the priest's offices.
Niph`al Perfect3plural עַלֿ וְנִסְמְּחוּ consecutive Isa 14:1 and they shall attach themselves to the house of Jacob (|| נִלְוָה).
Pi`el Participle חֲסָֽתְךָ מְסַמֵּהַ Hab 2:15 joining (to it ?) thy fury, but read probably מִסַּף (ח dittograph) from the goblet of thy fury (so We Gr Now GASm Da).
Pu`al Imperfect3masculine plural יְסֻמָּ֑חוּ Job 30:7 are joined together, hold themselves together (yet read perhaps Niph`al יִסָּפֵ֑חוּ Bu).
Hithpa`el Infinitive construct מֵהִסְתַּמֵּחַ 1Sa 26:19 they have driven me out from joining myself with (בְּ) the inheritance of ׳י.
II. ספח (√ of following; apparently pour out; compare Arabic pour out, shed (blood; Qor 6:146); Late Hebrew מִמֵּחַ of river, cast out alluvial soil, make new land).
שִׂמַּח verb Pi`el denominative cause a scab upon, smite with scab (שׂ substantive for ס); — וגו ׳קָדְקָד אֲדֹנָי וְשִׂמַּה (consecutive) Isa 3:17 and Adonay shall smite with scab the crown of the daughters of Zion.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 5 entries
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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