BDB5670
[סָפָה] verb sweep away or snatch away, catch up (Late Hebrew ׳ ספ, סָפָא collect (rare), ᵑ7 ׳ סְפִ (rare), Syriac [untranscribed source text 3635] collect, pick up; Arabic [untranscribed source text 3636] 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), Gen 19:17 (both
J
),
Num
16:26 (
J
E
)
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
BuhlLex 13) I will add, i.e.
multiply (√ יסף; see Ges
«GKC:69h»§
69h, note).