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title: סָפַק — slap · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סָפַק (lemma:סָפַק), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: slap. BDB 1906: vb. slap, clap Qal Hiph. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סָפַק

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«סָפַק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **slap** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:סָפַק · **BDB:** סָפַק

### Glosses

it.will.splash (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

slap [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e4_5b7_5e7/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. slap, clap Qal Hiph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e4_5b7_5e7/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** \[I. שָׂפַקִ\] vb. slap, clap (NH Pi. id.; Arabic سَفَقَ slap (face), strike (hands) Lane 1373);—Qal Pf. 3 ms. וְסָפַק consec. Je 48:26, sf. סְפָקָם Jb 34:26; 1 s. סָפַ֫קְתִּי Je 31:19; 3 pl. סָֽפְקוּ La 2:15; Impf. 3 ms. יִשְׂפֹּק (שׂ subst. for ס) Jb 27:23, יִסְפּוֹק 34:37, הִסְפֹּק Nu 24:10; Imv. ms. סְפֹק Ez 21:17;— slap, sq. עַל־יָרֵךְ on the thigh, in remorse and sorrow Je 31:19 Ez 21:17; c. כַּפַּיִם clap one’s hands Nu 24:10 (in anger), c. עַל at, La 2:15; Jb 27:23 (in mockery); כ׳ om. Jb 34:37 (in presumptuousness, against God). slap, chastise, c. acc. pers. Jb 34:26 (subj. God). splash וְס׳ מוֹאָב בְּקִיאוֹ Je 48:26 and Moab shall splash (fall with a splash) into his vomit, \> Thes BuhlLex 13 empty himself(?), throw up (cf. Syriac ܣܦܩ Pa.). Hiph. Impf. 3 mpl. וּבְיַלְדֵי נָכְרִים יַשְׂפִּ֫יקוּ Is 2:6 (read perhaps וּבִידֵי Hi Du Che, and into the hands of foreigners they clap, lit. cause to clap, sc. their hands; \> 𝔊 𝔖 from ii. שׂפק q.v., they abound in, have a sufficienty of).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סָפַק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e4_5b7_5e7/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 48:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.26/)

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הַשְׁכִּירֻ֕הוּ כִּ֥י עַל־יְהוָ֖ה הִגְדִּ֑יל וְסָפַ֤ק מוֹאָב֙ בְּקִיא֔וֹ וְהָיָ֥ה לִשְׂחֹ֖ק גַּם־הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* make it.drunk (dm) on Yahweh it.has.magnified.itself and it.will.splash Moab in vomit its and it.will.become (into).a laughing-stock also it

*JPS 1917:* Make ye him drunken, for he magnified himself against the LORD; and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

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