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title: סָעִיף — cleft · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סָעִיף (5585), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: cleft. BDB 1906: cleft. branch. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סָעִיף

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«סָעִיף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cleft** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 5585 · **BDB:** סָעִיף

### Glosses

branches (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cleft [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5585/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

cleft. branch [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5585/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] 1. cleft. 2. branch;— cleft of a crag, cstr. סְעִיף סֶלַע Ju 15:8, 11; pl. cstr. וּבִסְעִפֵֿי הַסְּלָעִים Is 2:21; סְעִיפֵי הַסּ׳ 57:5. branches, boughs, pl. cstr. סְעִפֵֿי הַפֹּרִיָּה Is 17:6 (so divide, Hi Kn Di DrSm xxx Du al.) the boughs of the fruit-tree; sf. סְעִיפֶיהָ 27:10 (of ruined city; cf. קְצִירָהּ v 11).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סָעִיף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5585/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 27:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.10/)

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כִּ֣י עִ֤יר בְּצוּרָה֙ בָּדָ֔ד נָוֶ֕ה מְשֻׁלָּ֥ח וְנֶעֱזָ֖ב כַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר שָׁ֣ם יִרְעֶ֥ה עֵ֛גֶל וְשָׁ֥ם יִרְבָּ֖ץ וְכִלָּ֥ה סְעִפֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.city fortified \[is\].alone \[it.is\].a.habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness there it.will.graze a.calf and there it.will.lie.down and it.will.bring.to.an.end branches its

*JPS 1917:* For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken, like the wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

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[Isaiah 17:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.6/)

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וְנִשְׁאַר־בּ֤וֹ עֽוֹלֵלֹת֙ כְּנֹ֣קֶף זַ֔יִת שְׁנַ֧יִם שְׁלֹשָׁ֛ה גַּרְגְּרִ֖ים בְּרֹ֣אשׁ אָמִ֑יר אַרְבָּעָ֣ה חֲמִשָּׁ֗ה בִּסְעִפֶ֙יהָ֙ פֹּֽרִיָּ֔ה נְאֻם־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.will.be.left in it gleanings like.\[the\] beating of.an.olive.tree two three olives at.\[the\] top of.\[the\].top four five on branches its fruit-bearing the.utterance of.Yahweh the.God of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as at the beating of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the branches of the fruitful tree, saith the LORD, the God of Israel.

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