Quick Definition
to snatch
Strong's Definition
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)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.
TWOT Reference: 1531
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
סָפָה (sa.phah) — to snatch. 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Control | verb nif
to be captured literally: to be removed; hence: = process by which humans are captured by other humans
Non-Exist | verb qal, verb nif
to be swept away literally: to be removed; hence: = process by which humans or objects disappear from existence in a violent way
Non-Exist | verb qal, verb nif
to sweep away literally: to remove; hence: = causative action by which deities cause humans or objects to be removed from existence
GEN 18:23 · GEN 18:24 · GEN 19:15 · GEN 19:17 · NUM 16:26 · 1SA 12:25 · 1SA 26:10 · 1SA 27:1 · ISA 7:20 · JER 12:4
Dead | verb qal
Collocation: ספה נֶפֶשׁ
to sweep away (someone's) life literally: to remove (someone's) life; hence: = causative action by which humans cause the life of other humans to come to a violent end
verb · יסף
Frequency | verb qal
to add = action by which humans or deities increase the frequency of a certain number of actions
Intense | verb hif
to increase = action by which humans cause a condition to increase in intensity
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[סָפָה] vb. sweep or snatch away, catch up Qal intrans. be snatched away
trans. sweep away
Niph. be swept away, destroyed
be caught up, captured
Hiph. I will catch up against them calamities
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