Çâphach — H5596

Definition

verb

properly, to scrape out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association)

1. to join, attach to, join together
1. (Qal) to join, attach to
2. (Niphal) to attach oneself
3. (Piel) joining (participle)
4. (Pual) to be joined together, hold oneself together
5. (Hithpael) to join oneself
2. (Piel) to cause a scab upon, smite with scab

Usually translated as

abiding, gather together, cleave, smite with the scab

Origin

or sâphach; (Isaiah 3:17), a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• prostíthēmi (G4369)
• stērízō (G4741)

Occurrences

Çâphach occurs 6 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Samuel (2), Job (1), Isaiah (2), Habakkuk (1)

• 1 Samuel 2:36 — And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put (סְפָחֵ֥נִי) me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
• 1 Samuel 26:19 — Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding (מֵהִסְתַּפֵּ֜חַ) in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
• Job 30:7 — Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together (יְסֻפָּֽחוּ).
• Isaiah 3:17 — Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab (וְשִׂפַּ֣ח) the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
• Isaiah 14:1 — For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave (וְנִסְפְּח֖וּ) to the house of Jacob.
• Habakkuk 2:15 — Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest (מְסַפֵּ֥חַ) thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!