---
title: צוּף — flow · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צוּף (6687), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: flow. BDB 1906: vb. flow, overflow, [float]. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6687.html)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [צ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1510.md)‎ / צוּף‎

<!-- .hw dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
# צוּף

<!-- .meta -->
«צוּף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **flow** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 6687 · **BDB:** צוּף

### Glosses

he.caused.to.float (1); he.caused.to.flow (1); they.overflowed (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

flow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6687/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. flow, overflow, \[float\] [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6687/#m2)

<!-- fold -->
**The whole BDB entry:** vb. flow, overflow, \[float\] (NH id.; so Aramaic טוּף, ܛܳܦ;—Arabic طَوْفٌ skin-raft is loan-wd. Frä 220);— Pf. 3 pl. צָפוּ־מַיִם עַל־רֹאשִׁי La 3:54 (fig.). Pf. cause to flow over, הֵצִיף אֶת־מֵי יַם־סוּף עַל־פְּנֵיהֶם Dt 11:4. cause to float: Impf. 3 ms. וַיָּצֶף הַבַּרְזֶל 2 K 6:6.

<!-- .note -->
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צוּף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6687/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Lamentations 3:54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.54/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
צָֽפוּ־מַ֥יִם עַל־רֹאשִׁ֖י אָמַ֥רְתִּי נִגְזָֽרְתִּי׃ס

*Word for word:* they.overflowed waters over head my I.said I.have.been.cut.off

*JPS 1917:* Waters flowed over my head; I said: 'I am cut off.'

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[2 Kings 6:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.6/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אִישׁ־הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים אָ֣נָה נָפָ֑ל וַיַּרְאֵ֙הוּ֙ אֶת־הַמָּק֔וֹם וַיִּקְצָב־עֵץ֙ וַיַּשְׁלֶךְ־שָׁ֔מָּה וַיָּ֖צֶף הַבַּרְזֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the.man of.(the) God where? did.it.fall and he showed.him (et) the place and he.cut.off a.piece.of.wood and he.threw.\[it\] to (to) and he.caused.to.float the iron

*JPS 1917:* And the man of God said: 'Where fell it?' And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and made the iron to swim.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [צוּעָר](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6686.md)
- next →: [צוּף](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6688.md)
- ↑ back to [צ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1510.md)