שָׁאַף (sha.aph) means “to long for” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: shaw-af' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
שָׁאַף · sha.aph · to long for
1) to gasp, pant, pant after, long for, breathe heavily 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to gasp, pant after, snuff up 1a2) to gasp or pant (with desire), pant after, be eager for 1a3) to thirst for one's blood (from actions of animals) (fig)
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שָׁאַף · sha.aph · to crush
1) to crush, trample, trample upon 1a) (Qal) to trample upon, crush
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a primitive root; to inhale eagerly; figuratively, to cover; by implication, to be angry; also to hasten
KJV glosses: desire (earnestly), devour, haste, pant, snuff up, swallow up.
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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 |
|---|---|
| and pant | 2 |
| and have trampled | 1 |
| are hounding me | 1 |
| he longs for | 1 |
| it hurries back | 1 |
| long for | 1 |
| pant after | 1 |
| pursue me | 1 |
| sniffing | 1 |
| they pant | 1 |
| they trample | 1 |
| those who trample me | 1 |
| you who trample | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and devour | 1 |
| and hasteth | 1 |
| and panted | 1 |
| and swallowed you up | 1 |
| desire | 1 |
| earnestly desireth | 1 |
| of him that would swallow me up | 1 |
| snuffeth up | 1 |
| swallow | 1 |
| swalloweth up | 1 |
| that pant | 1 |
| they snuffed up | 1 |
| this o ye that swallow up | 1 |
| would swallow me up | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 14 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
Read word by wordLike a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
Read word by wordDo not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
Read word by wordFor the choirmaster. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 56.2
My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 56.3
He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 57.4
I open my mouth and pant, longing for Your commandments.
Read word by wordThe sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.
Read word by word“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.
Read word by worda wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
Read word by wordWild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
Read word by wordtherefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
Read word by wordThey trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
Read word by wordHear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
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