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# שֶׂפֶק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5607

**hand-clapping** — 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

hand-clapping [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/5607/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׂ֫פֶק: hand-clapping mockery [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/5607/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] doubtful word; hand-clapping, i.e. mockery (?) (cf. vb. Jb 27:23);—שָׂ֑פֶק Jb 36:18 in difficult cl. כִּי־חֵמָה פֶּן־יְסִיתְךָ בְשׂ׳ because there is passion, (beware) lest it incite thee to mockery, BaeKau Da (but הסית בְּ = incite against, hence Bu reads לִשְׂפֹּק); De is not clear; others (as Di): lest it (passion) excite thee at the chastisement (v. √ 2; cf. Thes); Du reads מִשְׂפָּק לְחֵמָה lest chastisement incite thee to wrath.—On Jb 20:22 (edd.) v. שֵׂפֶק.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: mockery (1).

## In the verses

[Job 36:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.18/#tree)

כִּֽי־חֵ֭מָה פֶּן־יְסִֽיתְךָ֣ בְסָ֑פֶק וְרָב־כֹּ֝֗פֶר אַל־יַטֶּֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) rage lest it should.entice.you in mockery and.\[the\] greatness of.\[the\].ransom not let it.turn.you.aside

*JPS 1917:* For beware of wrath, lest thou be led away by thy sufficiency; neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5607.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/5607/): 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).