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title: שָׁזַף — catch sight of · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁזַף (7805), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: catch sight of. BDB 1906: vb. catch sight of, look on. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁזַף

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«שָׁזַף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **catch sight of** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 7805 · **BDB:** שָׁזַף

### Glosses

it (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

catch sight of [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7805/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. catch sight of, look on [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7805/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. catch sight of, look on (of eye);— Pf. 3 fs. sf. pers., subj. עַיִן, שְׁזָפַתּוּ Jb 20:9, so (rei) 28:7; cf. שֶׁשְּׁזָפַתְנִי הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ Ct 1:6 because the sun hath looked on me.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁזַף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7805/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 28:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.7/)

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נָ֭תִיב לֹֽא־יְדָ֣עוֹ עָ֑יִט וְלֹ֥א שְׁ֝זָפַ֗תּוּ עֵ֣ין אַיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].path not it knows.it a.bird.of.prey and not it catches.sight.of.it \[the\].eye of.a.black.kite

*JPS 1917:* That path no bird of prey knoweth, neither hath the falcon's eye seen it;

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[Job 20:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.9/)

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עַ֣יִן שְׁ֭זָפַתּוּ וְלֹ֣א תוֹסִ֑יף וְלֹא־ע֝֗וֹד תְּשׁוּרֶ֥נּוּ מְקוֹמֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* an.eye it caught.sight.of.him and not it.will.repeat and not again it will.observe.him place his

*JPS 1917:* The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

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