Lexical Definition

‎סָפָה‎ çâphâh (saw-faw') to snatch ^H:V
a primitive root

add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.

• properly, to scrape (literally, to shave
• but usually figuratively) together (i.e. to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e. to scatter, remove, or ruin
• intransitively, to perish)

1) to sweep or snatch away, catch up, destroy, consume
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be snatched away
1a2) to sweep or snatch away
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be swept away, be destroyed
1b2) to be caught up, be captured
1c) (Hiphil) to catch up, gather

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Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎סָפָה‎] verb sweep away or snatch away, catch up (Late Hebrew ‎׳‎‎ספ‎, ‎סָפָא‎ collect (rare), ᵑ7 ‎׳‎‎סְפִ‎ (rare), Syriac collect, pick up; Arabic of wind, raise dust and carry it away Lane¹³⁷⁷); —

Qal 1. intransitive: Perfect 3 feminine singular ‎סָֽפְתָה‎ Jer 12:4 be snatched away (read possibly ‎סָ֫פָה‎ [‎סוף‎]).

2. transitive: Imperfect 3 feminine singular ‎תִּסְפֶּה‎ Isa 7:20 sweep away beard; 2 masculine singular ‎תִּסְפֶּה‎ Gen 18:23; Gen 18:24 sweep away indiscriminately (good and bad); Infinitive construct ‎סְפוֺת‎ Deut 29:18* to snatch away the moist with the dry (proverb. expression, compare Dr), suffix ‎לִסְפּוֺתָהּ‎ Ps 40:15* to snatch it away (i.e. my life). — ‎וְסָפ֫וּ‎ Amos 3:15 see ‎סוף‎. Niph`al Pf . 3 masculine singular ‎וְנִסְפָּה‎ consecutive 1Sam 26:10 Imperfect 2 masculine singular‎תִּסָּפֶה‎ Gen 19:15; Gen 19:17 1 singular ‎אֶסָּפֶה‎ 1Sam 27:1 2 masculine plural ‎תִּסָּפוּ‎ Num 16:26, ‎תִּסָּפ֑וּ‎ 1Sam 12:25 Participle ‎נִסְפֶּה‎ Isa 13:15; Prov 13:23 (1Chr 21:12 see below); —

1. be swept away, destroyed, Gen 19:15 (‎בַּעֲוֺן הָעִיר‎ by reason of the iniquity of the city), vGen 19:17 (both J), Num 16:26 (JE) 1Sam 12:25; 1Sam 26:10 (in battle), + ‎בְּיַד‎ of agent 1Sam 27:1 compare ‎וְיֵשׁ נִסְפֶּה בְּלאֹ מִשְׁפָּט‎ Prov 13:23 and there is that is swept away for lack of justice. — 1Chr 21:12 read ‎נוּסְךָ‎ (as || 2Sam 24:13, see ‎נוּס‎).

2. be caught up, captured, Isa 13:15 (|| ‎נִמְצָא‎). Hiph`il Imperfect1 singular ‎אֵסְפֶּה עָלֵימוֺ רָעוֺת‎ Deut 32:23 I will catch up against them calamities, but read ‎אֹסְפָה‎ I will gather (√ ‎אסף‎), or < ‎אֹסִפָה‎ (Di Dr Buhl^{Lex 13}) I will add, i.e.multiply (√ ‎יסף‎; see Ges^{«GKC:69h»§ 69h}, note).

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