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# שׂפק

Biblical Hebrew

**suffice** — used 2 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

suffice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c2_5e4_5e7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** v. ספק.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 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: someone will clap (1); they clap hands (1).

## In the verses

[Job 27:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.23/#tree)

יִשְׂפֹּ֣ק עָלֵ֣ימוֹ כַפֵּ֑ימוֹ וְיִשְׁרֹ֥ק עָ֝לָ֗יו מִמְּקֹמֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* someone.will.clap on him palms his and he.will.hiss on him from place his

*JPS 1917:* Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

[Isaiah 2:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.2.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.2.6/#tree)

כִּ֣י נָטַ֗שְׁתָּה עַמְּךָ֙ בֵּ֣ית יַעֲקֹ֔ב כִּ֤י מָלְאוּ֙ מִקֶּ֔דֶם וְעֹֽנְנִ֖ים כַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וּבְיַלְדֵ֥י נָכְרִ֖ים יַשְׂפִּֽיקוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you.have.abandoned people your the.house of.Jacob (dm) they.are.full from.\[the\] east and soothsayers like the Philistines and with.\[the\] children of.foreigners they.clap.hands

*JPS 1917:* For Thou hast forsaken Thy people the house of Jacob; for they are replenished from the east, and with soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the brood of aliens.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5c2_5e4_5e7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c2_5e4_5e7/): 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).