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# שִׂפַּח

Biblical Hebrew

**cause a scab upon** — 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

cause a scab upon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c2_5e4_5b7_5bc_5d7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׂפַּח: vb. denom. cause scab upon, smite with scab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c2_5e4_5b7_5bc_5d7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. cause a scab upon, smite with scab (שׂ subst. for ס);—וְשִׂפַּח אֲדֹנָי קָּדְקָד וגו׳ (consec.) Is 3:17 and Adonay shall smite with scab the crown of the daughters of Zion.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: he will make scabby (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 3:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.17/#tree)

וְשִׂפַּ֣ח אֲדֹנָ֔י קָדְקֹ֖ד בְּנ֣וֹת צִיּ֑וֹן וַיהוָ֖ה פָּתְהֵ֥ן יְעָרֶֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.will.make.scabby Lord \[the\] the.crown.of.the.head of.the.daughters of.Zion and Yahweh forehead their he.will.lay.bare

*JPS 1917:* Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c2_5e4_5b7_5bc_5d7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c2_5e4_5b7_5bc_5d7/): 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).