סָעִיף
sa.iph
“cleft”
Definition
a fissure (of rocks); also a bough (as subdivided)
from H5586 (סָעַף);
- cleft, branch 1a) cleft (of a crag) 1b) branches, boughs
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
סָעִיף appears 6 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Yet gleanings will remain,like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree,four or five on its fruitful branches,”declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
They will flee to caverns in the rocksand crevices in the cliffs,away from the terror of the LORDand from the splendor of His majesty,when He rises to shake the earth.
For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken.There the calves graze, and there they lie down;they strip its branches bare.
who burn with lust among the oaks,under every luxuriant tree,who slaughter your children in the valleys,under the clefts of the rocks?
And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
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