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# שָׁזַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7805

**catch sight of** — 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

catch sight of [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7805/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁזַף: vb. catch sight of, look on [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7805/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. catch sight of, look on (of eye);— Pf. 3 fs. sf. pers., subj. עַיִן, שְׁזָפַתּוּ Jb 20:9, so (rei) 28:7; cf. שֶׁשְּׁזָפַתְנִי הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ Ct 1:6 because the sun hath looked on me.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it (3).

## In the verses

[Job 28:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.7/#tree)

נָ֭תִיב לֹֽא־יְדָ֣עוֹ עָ֑יִט וְלֹ֥א שְׁ֝זָפַ֗תּוּ עֵ֣ין אַיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].path not it knows.it a.bird.of.prey and not it catches.sight.of.it \[the\].eye of.a.black.kite

*JPS 1917:* That path no bird of prey knoweth, neither hath the falcon's eye seen it;

[Job 20:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.9/#tree)

עַ֣יִן שְׁ֭זָפַתּוּ וְלֹ֣א תוֹסִ֑יף וְלֹא־ע֝֗וֹד תְּשׁוּרֶ֥נּוּ מְקוֹמֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* an.eye it caught.sight.of.him and not it.will.repeat and not again it will.observe.him place his

*JPS 1917:* The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7805.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7805/): 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).