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# סָעִיף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5585

**cleft** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cleft [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5585/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָעִיף: cleft. branch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5585/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] 1. cleft. 2. branch;— cleft of a crag, cstr. סְעִיף סֶלַע Ju 15:8, 11; pl. cstr. וּבִסְעִפֵֿי הַסְּלָעִים Is 2:21; סְעִיפֵי הַסּ׳ 57:5. branches, boughs, pl. cstr. סְעִפֵֿי הַפֹּרִיָּה Is 17:6 (so divide, Hi Kn Di DrSm xxx Du al.) the boughs of the fruit-tree; sf. סְעִיפֶיהָ 27:10 (of ruined city; cf. קְצִירָהּ v 11).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: branches (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 27:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.10/#tree)

כִּ֣י עִ֤יר בְּצוּרָה֙ בָּדָ֔ד נָוֶ֕ה מְשֻׁלָּ֥ח וְנֶעֱזָ֖ב כַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר שָׁ֣ם יִרְעֶ֥ה עֵ֛גֶל וְשָׁ֥ם יִרְבָּ֖ץ וְכִלָּ֥ה סְעִפֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.city fortified \[is\].alone \[it.is\].a.habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness there it.will.graze a.calf and there it.will.lie.down and it.will.bring.to.an.end branches its

*JPS 1917:* For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken, like the wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

[Isaiah 17:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.6/#tree)

וְנִשְׁאַר־בּ֤וֹ עֽוֹלֵלֹת֙ כְּנֹ֣קֶף זַ֔יִת שְׁנַ֧יִם שְׁלֹשָׁ֛ה גַּרְגְּרִ֖ים בְּרֹ֣אשׁ אָמִ֑יר אַרְבָּעָ֣ה חֲמִשָּׁ֗ה בִּסְעִפֶ֙יהָ֙ פֹּֽרִיָּ֔ה נְאֻם־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.will.be.left in it gleanings like.\[the\] beating of.an.olive.tree two three olives at.\[the\] top of.\[the\].top four five on branches its fruit-bearing the.utterance of.Yahweh the.God of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as at the beating of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the branches of the fruitful tree, saith the LORD, the God of Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5585.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5585/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).