סָפָה (sa.phah) means “to snatch” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: saw-faw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
סָפָה · sa.phah · to snatch
1) to sweep or snatch away, catch up, destroy, consume 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be snatched away 1a2) to sweep or snatch away 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be swept away, be destroyed 1b2) to be caught up, be captured 1c) (Hiphil) to catch up, gather
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a primitive root; properly, to scrape (literally, to shave; but usually figuratively) together (i.e. to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e. to scatter, remove, or ruin; intransitively, to perish)
KJV glosses: add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| you will be swept away | 3 |
| and perish | 1 |
| and to remove | 1 |
| have been swept away | 1 |
| heaping up | 1 |
| i will be swept away | 1 |
| i will heap | 1 |
| is captured | 1 |
| of being swept away | 1 |
| stoke | 1 |
| sweep away | 1 |
| sweep it away | 1 |
| swept away | 1 |
| this will bring disaster | 1 |
| vvv | 1 |
| will be swept away | 1 |
| will come to an end | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| lest thou be consumed | 2 |
| wilt thou also destroy | 2 |
| add | 1 |
| and every one that is joined | 1 |
| and it shall also consume | 1 |
| and perish | 1 |
| are consumed | 1 |
| destroyed | 1 |
| i shall now perish | 1 |
| i will heap | 1 |
| nothing of theirs lest ye be consumed | 1 |
| put | 1 |
| that they may add | 1 |
| to add | 1 |
| to augment | 1 |
| to be destroyed | 1 |
| to destroy | 1 |
| ye shall be consumed | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 19 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
Read word by wordWhat if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there?
Read word by wordAt daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
Read word by wordAs soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
Read word by wordAnd he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”
Read word by wordNow behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
Read word by wordbecause when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 29.18
I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.
Read word by wordBut if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
Read word by wordDavid added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
Read word by wordDavid, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
Read word by wordbetween three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
Read word by wordMay those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 40.15
Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.
Read word by wordOn that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.
Read word by wordWhoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
Read word by word“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
Read word by wordHow long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
Read word by wordI will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.
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