שָׁאַף shaaph
Hebrew word for “to long for” · Strong’s H7602 · used 14 times in 14 verses
Meaning
1) to gasp, pant, pant after, long for, breathe heavily;
Senses in the lexicon
- to long for (8)
- to crush (6)
How it is translated
Glosses given for shaaph in context, with how often each is used:
- eager for 1
- who he pants for 1
- long for 1
- panted ! 1
- panting 1
- may pant 1
- sniffs 1
- have panted for 1
- has crushed 1
- have crushed 1
- one who crushes 1
- crush 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Psalms 56 (2), Job 5 (1), Job 7 (1), Job 36 (1), Psalms 57 (1), Psalms 119 (1), Ecclesiastes 1 (1), Isaiah 42 (1), Jeremiah 2 (1), Jeremiah 14 (1)
Forms
- ושׁאף 2
- שׁאפו 2
- השׁאפים 2
- ישׁאף 1
- תשׁאף 1
- ואשׁאפה 1
- שׁואף 1
- ואשׁאף 1
- שׁאפה 1
- שׁאפני 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shaaph more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
Key verses
The verses using shaaph that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Job 5:5 — Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
- Job 36:20 — Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
- Psalms 56:1 — [To the chief Musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.] Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow…
- Psalms 56:2 — Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
- Psalms 57:3 — He 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.
- Psalms 119:131 — I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
- Ecclesiastes 1:5 — The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
- Isaiah 42:14 — I 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.
- Jeremiah 2:24 — A 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…
- Ezekiel 36:3 — Therefore 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…
- Amos 2:7 — That 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…
- Amos 8:4 — Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
See all 14 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.