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Strong’s H7602 · Hebrew

שָׁאַף

shâʼaph · shaw-af'

Origin a primitive root;

Meaning to inhale eagerly; figuratively, to cover; by implication, to be angry; also to hasten

In the King James Version desire (earnestly), devour, haste, pant, snuff up, swallow up.

In 14 verses of the King James Version

  1. Job 5:5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
  2. Job 7:2As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
  3. Job 36:20Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
  4. Psalms 56:1To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
  5. Psalms 56:2Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
  6. Psalms 57:3He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
  7. Psalms 119:131I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
  8. Ecclesiastes 1:5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
  9. Isaiah 42:14I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
  10. Jeremiah 2:24A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
  11. Jeremiah 14:6And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
  12. Ezekiel 36:3Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
  13. Amos 2:7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
  14. Amos 8:4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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