Tsuph צוּף

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Tsuph (Hebrew צוּף, Strong's H6687) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to flow”. It occurs 3 times in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to flow, overflow, flood, float
1a) (Qal) to flood
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to cause to flow over
1b2) to cause to float

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	overflow (1), swim (1), over (1)
BSB	engulf (1), float (1), flowed (1)

Every verse with Tsuph, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Deuteronomy 11:4
And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord hath destroyed them unto this day;what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;

2 Kings 6:6
And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.“Where did it fall?” asked the man of God. And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.

Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).