סָפִיחַçâphîyach
סָפִיחַ: outpouring?, dubious (Job 14:19; Proverbs 28:3)
Pronunciation: saw-fee'-akh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5599
Meanings
סָפִיחַ: growth from spilled kernels, (kernels) poured out, accidentally, in harvesting, according to most, it is what springs up of itself in second year, and serves as food when no grain could be sown (2 Kings 19:29; Isaiah 37:30; Leviticus 25:5; Leviticus 25:11)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 25:5 And don’t store away the crops that grow on their own or gather the grapes from your unpruned vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.
- Leviticus 25:11 This fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you. During that year you must not plant your fields or store away any of the crops that grow on their own, and don’t gather the grapes from your unpruned vines.
- 2 Kings 19:29 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Here is the proof that what I say is true: “This year you will eat only what grows up by itself, and next year you will eat what springs up from that. But in the third year you will plant crops and harvest them; you will tend vineyards and eat their fruit.
- Job 14:19 as water wears away the stones and floods wash away the soil, so you destroy people’s hope.
- Isaiah 37:30 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Here is the proof that what I say is true: “This year you will eat only what grows up by itself, and next year you will eat what springs up from that. But in the third year you will plant crops and harvest them; you will tend vineyards and eat their fruit.
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).