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# סָעִיף

Biblical Hebrew

**cleft** — used 4 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/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e2_5b4_5d9_5e3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָעִיף: cleft. branch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e2_5b4_5d9_5e3/#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, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Judges 15:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.15.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.15.8/#tree)

וַיַּ֨ךְ אוֹתָ֥ם שׁ֛וֹק עַל־יָרֵ֖ךְ מַכָּ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֑ה וַיֵּ֣רֶד וַיֵּ֔שֶׁב בִּסְעִ֖יף סֶ֥לַע עֵיטָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.defeated them leg with thigh a.defeat great and he.went.down and he.dwelt in the.cleft of.the.rock of.Etam

*JPS 1917:* And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

[Isaiah 57:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.5/#tree)

הַנֵּֽחָמִים֙ בָּֽאֵלִ֔ים תַּ֖חַת כָּל־עֵ֣ץ רַעֲנָ֑ן שֹׁחֲטֵ֤י הַיְלָדִים֙ בַּנְּחָלִ֔ים תַּ֖חַת סְעִפֵ֥י הַסְּלָעִֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[who are\].inflaming.yourselves among the oaks under every tree luxuriant \[who.are\].slaughtering (of \[the\].children in the wadis under the.clefts of the.cliffs

*JPS 1917:* Ye that inflame yourselves among the terebinths, under every leafy tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e2_5b4_5d9_5e3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e2_5b4_5d9_5e3/): 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).