Strong H5585סָעִיף

cleft

Transliteration
sâ‛îyph
Pronunciation
saw-eef'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From H5586; a fissure (of rocks); also a bough (as subdivided): - ({outmost}) {branch} {clift} top.

Detailed definition

1) cleft, branch
1a) cleft (of a crag)
1b) branches, boughs

In the Bible

Strong H5585 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • top3
  • branch2
  • clifts1

First verses

  1. Judges 15:8
    And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
  2. Judges 15:11
    Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
  3. Isaiah 2:21
    To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
  4. Isaiah 17:6
    Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.
  5. Isaiah 27:10
    Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
  6. Isaiah 57:5
    Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
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