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# סָפִיחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5599

**outpouring** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

outpouring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5599/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָפִיחַ: outpouring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5599/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] outpouring (?);—pl. sf. תִּשְׁטֹף־סְפִיחֶיהָ עֲפַר־אָ֑רֶץ Jb 14:19 (si vera l.) its outpourings sweep away the dust of the earth, so most, but dub.; Bu proposes \*סְחִיפָה, cf. מָטָר סֹחֵף Pr 28:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 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: overflowings (1).

## In the verses

[Job 14:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.19/#tree)

אֲבָנִ֤ים ׀ שָׁ֥חֲקוּ מַ֗יִם תִּשְׁטֹֽף־סְפִיחֶ֥יהָ עֲפַר־אָ֑רֶץ וְתִקְוַ֖ת אֱנ֣וֹשׁ הֶאֱבַֽדְתָּ׃

*Word for word:* stones they.rub.away waters it.washes.off overflowings its \[the\].dust of.\[the\].earth and.\[the\] hope of.humankind you.destroy

*JPS 1917:* The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5599.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5599/): 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).