סָפַחçâphach
סָפח: join, attach to
Pronunciation: saw-fakh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5596
Meanings
Qal: attach (1 Samuel 2:36)
Niph`al: attach themselves (Isaiah 14:1)
Pi`el: joining, but read probably מִסַּף (Habakkuk 2:15)
Pu`al: are joined together, hold themselves together, yet read perhaps Niph`al יִסָּפֵ֑חוּ (Job 30:7)
Hithpa`el: joining myself (1 Samuel 26:19)
שִׂפַּח: Pi`el: cause a scab upon, smite with scab, (שׂ substantive for ס) (Isaiah 3:17)
Same root
- מִסְפָּחָהmiçpâchâh · H4555a veil (as spread out)
- מִסְפַּחַתmiçpachath · H4556scruf (as spreading over the surface)
- מִשְׂפָּחmispâch · H4939slaughter
- סַפַּחַתçappachath · H5597the mange (as making the hair fall off)
- סָפִיחַçâphîyach · H5599something (spontaneously) falling off, i.e. a self-sown crop; figuratively, a freshet
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- 1 Samuel 2:36 Then all of your surviving family will bow before him, begging for money and food. ‘Please,’ they will say, ‘give us jobs among the priests so we will have enough to eat.’”
- 1 Samuel 26:19 But now let my lord the king listen to his servant. If the Lord has stirred you up against me, then let him accept my offering. But if this is simply a human scheme, then may those involved be cursed by the Lord. For they have driven me from my home, so I can no longer live among the Lord’s people, and they have said, ‘Go, worship pagan gods.’
- Job 30:7 They sound like animals howling among the bushes, huddled together beneath the nettles.
- Isaiah 3:17 So the Lord will send scabs on her head; the Lord will make beautiful Zion bald.”
- Isaiah 14:1 But the Lord will have mercy on the descendants of Jacob. He will choose Israel as his special people once again. He will bring them back to settle once again in their own land. And people from many different nations will come and join them there and unite with the people of Israel.
- Habakkuk 2:15 “What sorrow awaits you who make your neighbors drunk! You force your cup on them so you can gloat over their shameful nakedness.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).