שׁוּףshûwph

bruise

Pronunciation: shoof · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7779

Meanings

Qal: cover, screen, me (Genesis 3:15; Job 9:17; Psalms 139:11)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 3:15 And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”
  • Job 9:17 For he attacks me with a storm and repeatedly wounds me without cause.
  • Psalms 139:11 I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night—
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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).