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# שָׁאַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7602

**gasp** — used 8 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

gasp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7602/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁאַף: vb. gasp, pant, pant after, long for [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7602/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. gasp, pant, pant after, long for (so 𝔗 Jb 7:2);— Pf. 3 ms. וְשָׁאַף consec. Jb 5:5, 3 fs. שָֽׁאֲפָה Je 2:24, 3 pl. שָֽׁאֲפוּ 14:6; Impf. 3 ms. יִשְׁאַף Jb 7:2, etc.; Pt. act. שׁוֹאֵף Ec 1:5;— gasp, as a woman in travail, fig. of י׳, Is 42:14 (‖ נָשַׁם); pant after, snuff up the wind (acc.), of wild ass Je 2:24; 14:6; constr. praegn. וְאֶל־מְקוֹמוֹ שׁ׳ Ec 1:5 unto his place he panteth (comes panting), of sun under fig. of racer. gasp or pant with desire ψ 119:131 (‖ יָאַב); pant after, be eager for, c. acc. Jb 5:5 (cf. צַמִּים p. 855b), 7:2 (‖ יְקַזֶּה), 36:20 (but obscure in context).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it pants for (2); I (1); I pant (1).

## In the verses

[Job 36:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.20/#tree)

אַל־תִּשְׁאַ֥ף הַלָּ֑יְלָה לַעֲל֖וֹת עַמִּ֣ים תַּחְתָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* do.not pant.for the night to go.up peoples in their.place

*JPS 1917:* Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.

[Job 7:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.2/#tree)

כְּעֶ֥בֶד יִשְׁאַף־צֵ֑ל וּ֝כְשָׂכִ֗יר יְקַוֶּ֥ה פָעֳלֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* like a.slave \[who\].he.pants.for shade and like a.hired.laborer \[who\].he.waits.eagerly.for wage\[s\] his

*JPS 1917:* As a servant that eagerly longeth for the shadow, and as a hireling that looketh for his wages;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7602.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7602/): 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).