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שֶׁטֶף

sheṭeph · H7858 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. torrent, flood

    A large quantity of water moving with great and potentially destructive power; often used as an image for overwhelming danger, destruction, or military strength

    Examples

    Job 38:25 “Who has split open a channel for the flood, And a way for the thunderbolt,

    Psalm 32:6 Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found; Certainly in a flood of great waters, they will not reach him.

    Nahum 1:8 But with an overflowing flood He will make a complete end of its site, And will pursue His enemies into darkness.

  2. overwhelming

    Literally: a torrent; hence: state in which an event is overwhelmingly intense like a flood of water

    Examples

    Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy?

How it’s used In 5 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

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 2 entries
Flow002002001008
The noun for a flood or overflowing torrent, used of the channel God "split open... for the flood" (Job 38:25) and of the "flood of great waters" the psalmist trusts will not overtake the godly (Psalm 32:6).
Intense002001003011
The same noun used figuratively for overwhelming intensity, as when "anger is a flood" before jealousy (Proverbs 27:4) and the coming "flood" of destruction and war in Daniel's prophecies (Daniel 9:26, 11:22).
Word family 3 words

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

שָׁטַף shâṭaph · H7857 · to flow, to overflow, to sweep through · 31×שֶׁטֶףsheṭeph · H7858שֶׁצֶף shetseph · H8241 · overwhelming · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7858. sheteph שֶׁ֫צֶף שֶׁ֫טֶף, noun masculineNah 1:8 flood; — absolute שֶׁ֫טֶף Nah 1:8…
H7858. sheteph
שֶׁ֫צֶף שֶׁ֫טֶף, noun masculineNah 1:8 flood; — absolute שֶׁ֫טֶף Nah 1:8 Nah 1:3t.; construct ׳שֶׁ Pro 27:4, ׳שֵׁ Psa 32:6; — flood, figurative of ׳יs judgement, ׳שׁ עֹבֵר Nah 1:8, compare Dan 9:26, ׳הַשּׁ זְרֹעוֺת Dan 11:22 (compare Dr); of calamity, ׳שׁ רַבִּים מַיִם Psa 32:6; ׳שׁ אָף Pro 27:4 a flood of anger; so קֶצֶף שֶׁצֶף Isa 54:8 (צ for ט before following צ Ew Di; > Du Che Marti strike out ׳שׁ as dittograph); שֶׁטֶף literally of rainflood, Job 38:25.
שׁטר (√ of following; Assyrian ša‰âru, write, Sabean סטר HomChr 124 DHMEp. Denkm. Arabic lii. 2, liv. 2; Arabic rule (a book), write, row, line; Aramaic שְׁטָרָא, document, so HilprBabylonian Exp. x.8 CISii.67, Nabataean, Palmyrene שטר Lzb374:00:00 HomNKZ i.69 all from Assyrian).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Intense1 occurrenceFlow5 occurrences

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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