Shaaph שָׁאַף
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| שָׁאַף | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | shaaph |
| Strong's number | H7602 (H7602A, H7602B) |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Gloss | to long for |
| Occurrences | 14 in 14 verses |
| Most frequent in | Psalms (4) |
Shaaph (Hebrew שָׁאַף, Strong's H7602) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to long for”. It occurs 14 times in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
H7602A: to long for
1) to gasp, pant, pant after, long for, breathe heavily
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to gasp, pant after, snuff up
1a2) to gasp or pant (with desire), pant after, be eager for
1a3) to thirst for one's blood (from actions of animals) (fig)
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to gasp, pant after, snuff up
1a2) to gasp or pant (with desire), pant after, be eager for
1a3) to thirst for one's blood (from actions of animals) (fig)
H7602B: to crush
1) to crush, trample, trample upon
1a) (Qal) to trample upon, crush
1a) (Qal) to trample upon, crush
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | up (7), desireth (1), desire (1), swallow (1), panted (1), hasteth (1), devour (1), pant (1) |
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| BSB | pant (2), pant after (1), he longs (1), long (1), are hounding me (1), pursue me (1), those who trample me (1), it hurries back (1), sniffing (1), they pant (1), have trampled (1), they trample (1), and 1 other rendering |
Verses
Every verse with Shaaph, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Job
- Job 5:5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
- Job 7:2As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
- Job 36:20Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
Psalms
- Psalm 56:1Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.
- Psalm 56:2Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.
- Psalm 57:3He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
- Psalm 119:131I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.I open my mouth and pant, longing for Your commandments.
Ecclesiastes
- Ecclesiastes 1:5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 42:14I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 2:24A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
- Jeremiah 14:6And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 36:3Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
Amos
- Amos 2:7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
Notes
- 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).