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# צוּף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6687

**flow** — used 3 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

flow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6687/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צוּף: vb. flow, overflow, \[float\] [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6687/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. flow, overflow, \[float\] (NH id.; so Aramaic טוּף, ܛܳܦ;—Arabic طَوْفٌ skin-raft is loan-wd. Frä 220);— Pf. 3 pl. צָפוּ־מַיִם עַל־רֹאשִׁי La 3:54 (fig.). Pf. cause to flow over, הֵצִיף אֶת־מֵי יַם־סוּף עַל־פְּנֵיהֶם Dt 11:4. cause to float: Impf. 3 ms. וַיָּצֶף הַבַּרְזֶל 2 K 6:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he caused to float (1); he caused to flow (1); they overflowed (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:54](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.54/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.54/#tree)

צָֽפוּ־מַ֥יִם עַל־רֹאשִׁ֖י אָמַ֥רְתִּי נִגְזָֽרְתִּי׃ס

*Word for word:* they.overflowed waters over head my I.said I.have.been.cut.off

*JPS 1917:* Waters flowed over my head; I said: 'I am cut off.'

[2 Kings 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.6/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אִישׁ־הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים אָ֣נָה נָפָ֑ל וַיַּרְאֵ֙הוּ֙ אֶת־הַמָּק֔וֹם וַיִּקְצָב־עֵץ֙ וַיַּשְׁלֶךְ־שָׁ֔מָּה וַיָּ֖צֶף הַבַּרְזֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the.man of.(the) God where? did.it.fall and he showed.him (et) the place and he.cut.off a.piece.of.wood and he.threw.\[it\] to (to) and he.caused.to.float the iron

*JPS 1917:* And the man of God said: 'Where fell it?' And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and made the iron to swim.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6687.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6687/): 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).