H5585 סָעִיף (çâʻîyph) saw-eef'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

cleft

Strong's Definition

a fissure (of rocks); also a bough (as subdivided)

Derivation: from H5586 (סָעַף);

KJV Usage: (outmost) branch, clift, top.

TWOT Reference: 1527a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) cleft, branch

1a) cleft (of a crag)

1b) branches, boughs

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

סָעִיף (sa.iph) — cleft. 1) cleft, branch 1a) cleft (of a crag) 1b) branches, boughs

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

סָעִיף (H5585) SAHD

noun m · סעף

Landforms

cleft (in rock) = a narrow opening or long, narrow crack in a rock; ≈ regarded as a suitable place for hiding

JDG 15:8 · JDG 15:11 · ISA 2:21 · ISA 57:5

Trees

bough, branch = part of a tree which grows out of the trunk or a bough

ISA 17:6 · ISA 27:10

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[סָעִיף] n.[m.] 1. cleft. 2. branch base

Bible Occurrences (6)

15:8 15:11

2:21 17:6 27:10 57:5

Judges 15:8

And he struck them ruthlessly...... with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.

Judges 15:11

In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What... have you done to us? I have done to them what they did to me, he replied.

Isaiah 2:21

They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

Isaiah 17:6

Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten— two or three berries atop the tree..., four or five on its fruitful branches, declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city lies deserted — a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches {bare}.

Isaiah 57:5

who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?