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title: סַף — basin · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סַף (lemma:סַף), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: basin. BDB 1906: n.m. basin, goblet door-sill). With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סַף

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«סַף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **basin** — 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:** 7 times · **Key:** lemma:סַף · **BDB:** סַף²

### Glosses

basins (4); basin (2); a.basin (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

basin [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b7_5e3/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. basin, goblet door-sill) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b7_5e3/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. basin, goblet (NH סַף; Ph. סף (Inscr. of Tyre(1), 5, 6) SchrödZMG xxxix (1885), 917 f. Cl-Gann Annales du Musée Guimet x. 511 = Recueil d’arch. orient. (1886), 89 HalRÉJ xii. 107 Bloch; but Lzb330 door-sill);—ס׳ abs. basin Ex 12:22(×2) (J; containing blood of passover lamb); cstr. סַף־רַעַל Zc 12:2 goblet of reeling (intoxicating, fig.), prob. also Hb 2:15, where read מִסַּף תֲמָֽתְךָ from the goblet of thy fury (for MT מְסַפֵּחַ ח׳, v. I. ספח); pl. abs. סַפּוֹת 2 S 17:28 basins for ordinary use; הַסִּפִּים Je 52:19, הַסִּפּוֹת 1 K 7:50 and cstr. סִפּוֹת כֶּסֶף 2 K 12:14, of temple utensils.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סַף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b7_5e3/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 17:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.28/)

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מִשְׁכָּ֤ב וְסַפּוֹת֙ וּכְלִ֣י יוֹצֵ֔ר וְחִטִּ֥ים וּשְׂעֹרִ֖ים וְקֶ֣מַח וְקָלִ֑י וּפ֥וֹל וַעֲדָשִׁ֖ים וְקָלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* bed\[s\] and basins and a.vessel of.a.potter and wheat(s) and barley(s) and flour and roasted.grain and bean\[s\] and lentils and roasted.grain

*JPS 1917:* brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse,

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[Zechariah 12:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.12.2/)

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הִנֵּ֣ה אָ֠נֹכִי שָׂ֣ם אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֧ם סַף־רַ֛עַל לְכָל־הָעַמִּ֖ים סָבִ֑יב וְגַ֧ם עַל־יְהוּדָ֛ה יִֽהְיֶ֥ה בַמָּצ֖וֹר עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

*Word for word:* here! I \[am\].about.to.make (et) Jerusalem a.basin of.reeling for all the peoples all.around and also on Judah it.will.be in the siege on Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of staggering unto all the peoples round about, and upon Judah also shall it fall to be in the siege against Jerusalem.

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