Word

סָפַק

çâphaq · H5606 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

to strike > to punish

Literally: to strike; action by which deities administer punishment to humans

Examples
Job 34:26 “He strikes them like the wicked In a public place,
Literally: to strike (one's) thigh; action by which humans express their shame and grief by striking their thigh (to strike (one's) thigh)

Examples
Jeremiah 31:19 ‘For after I turned back, I repented; And after I was instructed, I slapped my thigh; I was ashamed and also humiliated Because I bore the shame of my youth.’
Literally: to strike (one's) palms (together); hence: action by which humans express their anger and disgust by striking their hands together (to strike (one's) hands (together))

Examples
Numbers 24:10 Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have persisted in blessing them these three times!
to increase

Causative action by which humans increase the frequency of a certain action

Examples
Job 34:37 ‘For he adds rebellion to his sin; He claps his hands among us, And multiplies his words against God.’”
to wallow

Action by which humans turn about in a substance, so that their body or clothing is covered by it

Examples
Jeremiah 48:26 “Make him drunk, for he has become arrogant toward the LORD; so Moab will vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock.

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

Who or what does itSubject

10 occurrences in 7 groups

Not stated: he, she or it 4
מוֹאָבMoab 1
עָבַרto pass 1
עָפָרdust, dirt 1
Not stated: I 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 2 groups

כַּףpalm, hand 3
הֶםthem 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

9 occurrences in 12 groups

Other words · 12 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12

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 6 entries

Chastise002003002005: One attested sense, to strike down, as when Job describes God striking the wicked in a public place before all to see.
Stance002001001061: Another attested sense, the bodily gesture of clapping the hands, as when Balak strikes his hands together in anger against Balaam, or when Job's onlookers clap their hands in mockery.
Frequency002001003009: A broader attested sense of a repeated action, not directly shown by the citations sampled here.
Wet002001001071: A broader attested sense of wallowing, not directly shown by the citations sampled here.
Associate002003002002: A broader attested sense of joining together, not directly shown by the citations sampled here.
Quantity002001001046: Another attested sense, to be sufficient or enough, as when Ben-hadad boasts that even the dust of Samaria will not be enough to fill the hands of his vast army.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

סָפַקçâphaq · H5606סֵפֶק çêpheq · H5607 · abundance · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5606. saphaq II. [שָׂפַק] verb suffice (Late Hebrew סָפַק suffice, abound, so Ecclus…

H5606. saphaq
II. [שָׂפַק] verb suffice (Late Hebrew סָפַק suffice, abound, so Ecclus 15:18 +; סְפַק סְפֵיק, ᵑ7, Syriac ; Arabic is be niggardly, scanty, Lane1573); —
Qal Imperfect3masculine singular יִשְׂמֹּק 1Ki 20:10, subject dust, with לְ of thing.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 5 entries

Quantity2 occurrences Stance6 occurrences Wet1 occurrence Associate1 occurrence Chastise1 occurrence

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