סָפָה
sa.phah (H5595)
to snatch
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word "sa.phah" (H5595) is a verb that means "to snatch". This action implies a sudden and often forceful taking or seizing of something or someone. The word is used 19 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in various contexts. The range of usage for "sa.phah" includes situations where someone or something is being taken away quickly, often without warning or consent. This can be seen in physical actions, such as snatching a person or an object, or in more abstract contexts, like snatching away someone's freedom or dignity. The word can also imply a sense of urgency or suddenness, as if something is being taken away in a split second. The significance of "sa.phah" lies in its ability to convey a sense of sudden loss or deprivation. It highlights the importance of being aware of one's surroundings and the potential for unexpected events to occur. By examining the various occurrences of "sa.phah" in the Bible, we can gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of human experience and the ways in which we can be affected by the actions of others.
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Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”
It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”
“Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.
and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.
“I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
But if you keep doing evil, you will be consumed, both you and your king.”
David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”
either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’ ”
Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, “He won’t see our latter end.”
I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end,” says Yahweh.