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# שֶׁטֶף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7858

**flood** — used 6 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

flood [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7858/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׁ֫טֶף: n.m. flood [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7858/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Na 1:8 flood;—abs. שֶׁ֫טֶף Na 1:8 + 3 times; cstr. שֶׁ׳ Pr 27:4, שֵׁ׳ ψ 32:6;—flood, fig. of י׳’s judgment, שׁ׳ עֹבֵר Na 1:8, cf. Dn 9:26, זְרֹעוֹת הַשּׁ׳ 11:22 (cf. Dr); of calamity, שׁ׳ מַיִם רַבִּים ψ 32:6; שׁ׳ אָף Pr 27:4 a flood of anger; so שֶׁצֶף קֶצֶף Is 54:8 (צ for ט bef. foll. צ Ew Di; \> Du Che Marti del. שׁ׳ as dittogr.); שֶׁטֶף lit. of rainflood, Jb 38:25.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a flood (2); flood (2); by (the) flood (1).

## In the verses

[Job 38:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.25/#tree)

מִֽי־פִלַּ֣ג לַשֶּׁ֣טֶף תְּעָלָ֑ה וְ֝דֶ֗רֶךְ לַחֲזִ֥יז קֹלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* who? does.he.divide for the flood a.channel and a.path for.\[the\] storm of.thunder.claps

*JPS 1917:* Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, or a way for the lightning of the thunder;

[Proverbs 27:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.4/#tree)

אַכְזְרִיּ֣וּת חֵ֭מָה וְשֶׁ֣טֶף אָ֑ף וּמִ֥י יַ֝עֲמֹד לִפְנֵ֥י קִנְאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].cruelty of.rage and.\[the\] flood of.anger and who? will.he.stand before jealousy

*JPS 1917:* Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7858.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7858/): 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).