סָפַק
sa.phaq
“to slap”
Definition
to clap the hands (in token of compact, derision, grief, indignation, or punishment); by implication of satisfaction, to be enough; by implication of excess, to vomit
or שָׂפַק; (1 Kings 20:10; Job 27:23; Isaiah 2:6), a primitive root;
- to clap, slap 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to slap, clap 1a2) to slap, chastise 1a3) to splash, throw up 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to clap
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
סָפַק appears 9 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Then Ben-hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if enough dust remains of Samaria for each of my men to have a handful.”
For You have abandoned Your people,the house of Jacob,because they are filledwith influences from the east;they are soothsayers like the Philistines;they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
After I returned, I repented;and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief.I was ashamed and humiliatedbecause I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
“Make him drunk,because he has magnified himself against the LORD;so Moab will wallow in his own vomit,and he will also become a laughingstock.
It claps its hands at himand hisses him out of his place.
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