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title: סָפַח — join · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סָפַח (5596), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: join. BDB 1906: vb. join, attach to. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סָפַח

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«סָפַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **join** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 5596 · **BDB:** סָפַח

### Glosses

attach (1); having.a.share (1); they.are.joined.together (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

join [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5596/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. join, attach to [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5596/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. join, attach to;— Imv. ms. sf. סְפָחֵ֫נִי נָא אֶל־וגק׳ 1 S 2:36 attach me, pray, to one of the priest’s offices. Pf. 3 pl. וְנִסְפְּחוּ עַל־ consec. Is 14:1 and they shall attach themselves to the house of Jacob (‖ נִלְוָה). Pt. מְסַפֵּחַ חֲמָֽתְךָ Hb 2:15 joining (to it?) thy fury, but read prob. מִסַּף (ח dittogr.) from the goblet of thy fury (so We Gr Now GASm Da). Impf. 3 mpl. יְסֻפָּ֑חוּ Jb 30:7 are joined together, hold themselves together (yet read perhaps Niph. יִסָּפֵּ֑חוּ Bu). Inf. cstr. מֵהִסְתַּפֵּחַ 1 S 26:19 they have driven me out from joining myself with (בְּ) the inheritance of י׳.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סָפַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5596/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 30:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.7/)

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בֵּין־שִׂיחִ֥ים יִנְהָ֑קוּ תַּ֖חַת חָר֣וּל יְסֻפָּֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* between bushes they.bray under weed\[s\] they.are.joined.together

*JPS 1917:* Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.

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[Isaiah 14:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.1/)

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כִּי֩ יְרַחֵ֨ם יְהוָ֜ה אֶֽת־יַעֲקֹ֗ב וּבָחַ֥ר עוֹד֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְהִנִּיחָ֖ם עַל־אַדְמָתָ֑ם וְנִלְוָ֤ה הַגֵּר֙ עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם וְנִסְפְּח֖וּ עַל־בֵּ֥ית יַעֲקֹֽב׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he.will.have.compassion.on Yahweh (et) Jacob and he.will.choose again (in) Israel and he will.give.them.rest on land their.own and he.will.join.himself the sojourner to them and they.will.attach.themselves to the.house of.Jacob

*JPS 1917:* For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the stranger shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

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