Quick Definition
to overrun
Strong's Definition
to extend (even to excess)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: exceeding, hand, spread, stretch self, banish.
TWOT Reference: 1543
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
סָרַח (sa.rach) — to overrun. 1) to go free, be unrestrained, be overrun, exceed, overhang, grow luxuriously 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go free, be unrestrained, sprawl 1a1a) overrunning, spreading (participle) 1a2) to overhang 1b) (Niphal) to be let loose or dismissed or gone
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
adj · סרח
Clothing
Collocation: סְרוּחֵי טְבוּלִים
flowing turbans, elaborate turbans exact meaning unsure; possibly: = headgear made by wrapping an excessive length of cloth around the head
verb · סֶרַח
Large | verb qal
to spread forth = process by which a plant grows in such a way that it covers a wide area
verb
End | verb nif
to rot literally: to decay; hence: = process by which a condition slowly decreases in intensity until it is gone
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[סָרַח] vb. go free, be unrestrained, overrun, exceed Qal go free, be unrestrained
of overhanging stuffs (prop. overrunning, exceeding, extended beyond limits)
Niph. usu. is their wisdom let loose (i.e. dismissed, gone)?; but is corrupt
base