שָׁטַףshâṭaph
overflow, rinse or wash off
Pronunciation: shaw-taf' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7857
Meanings
Qal
1. overflow (Isaiah 8:8; Jeremiah 47:2; Daniel 11:10)
2. flow, run (Psalms 78:20; 2 Chronicles 32:4)
3. rinse or wash off (1 Kings 22:38; Leviticus 15:11; Ezekiel 16:9)
Niph`al: be rinsed out, off, be swept away (Leviticus 15:12; Daniel 11:22; Daniel 11:26)
Pu`al: rinsed (Leviticus 6:21)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 31 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 6:28 If a clay pot is used to boil the sacrificial meat, it must then be broken. If a bronze pot is used, it must be scoured and thoroughly rinsed with water.
- Leviticus 15:11 If the man touches you without first rinsing his hands, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening.
- Leviticus 15:12 Any clay pot the man touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil he touches must be rinsed with water.
- 1 Kings 22:38 Then his chariot was washed beside the pool of Samaria, and dogs came and licked his blood at the place where the prostitutes bathed, just as the Lord had promised.
- 2 Chronicles 32:4 They organized a huge work crew to stop the flow of the springs, cutting off the brook that ran through the fields. For they said, “Why should the kings of Assyria come here and find plenty of water?”
- Job 14:19 as water wears away the stones and floods wash away the soil, so you destroy people’s hope.
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).