שָׁדַף
to scorch
‘to scorch’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H7710 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 3 verses
- Genesis 41:6 וּ/שְׁדוּפֹ֣ת conj + Qal ptcp.pass fp cs Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
- Genesis 41:23 שְׁדֻפ֣וֹת Qal ptcp.pass fp cs and, behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
- Genesis 41:27 שְׁדֻפ֖וֹת Qal ptcp.pass fp cs The seven lean and ill-favored cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, שדף (shâdaph) means “to scorch.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. The word gravitates to Genesis (100%). First canonically at Genesis 41:6, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7710 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 3 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Blasted 3×
- American Standard Version: Blasted 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Scorched 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Scorched 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7710 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7710 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7710 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7710 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to scorch, blight
- (Qal) scorched (of ears of corn) (participle)
Word origin
[ שָׁדַף ] vb. scorch, blight
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שָׁדַף
- , s. v. דַּף) to knock; (of grain) to blast. Pesik. ʿAsser, p. 99ᵇ [read:] רוח אחת … והיא שׁוֹדְפַתָּן I send one east wind, and it blasts them; Yalk. Deut. 892 שדפתן (corr. acc.); Tanḥ. R’eh 17 ומְשַׁדַּפְתָּן; Pesik. R. s. 25 ושׁוֹדֶפֶת.
- same, v. supra.
- to be blasted. B. Mets. IX, 6 המקבל … או נִשְׁדְּפָה if one tenanted a field …, and the locust ate it up, or it was blasted. Ib. 105ᵇ כגון שנִשְׁתַּדְּפוּ ארבע וכ׳ (it is considered a regional calamity,) if for instance four fields on four sides of that in litigation have been struck with blast. Ib. נ׳ תלם אחד וכ׳ if one furrow over the whole length of it was struck. Y. M. Kat. III, 81ᵈ top כל מקום … היה נִשְׁדָּף every spot on which his eye looked was blasted; a. fr.
שְׁדַף
- Ithpa. אִשְׁתַּדֵּיף, Ithpe. אִשְׁתְּדִיף, אִשְּׁדִיף same,
- 1. to be blasted, emptied of grain. B. Mets. 105ᵇ דאִישְּׁדּוּף רובא דבאגא when most of the fields of the valley were struck; ib. 106ᵃ אִשְׁתַּדּוּף רובא וכ׳ most of the fields … were struck, and also his barley was blasted. Ib. (mixed dict.) דהא מִשְׁתַּדְּפוּ כל שדותיך for all thy fields have been struck; a. e.—
- *2. (euphem.) to ease one’s self. Targ. I Kings XVIII, 27 (h. text שִׂיג).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H7710 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/שְׁדוּפֹ֣ת | Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 41:6 | 1 |
| שְׁדֻפ֖וֹת | Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 41:27 | 1 |
| שְׁדֻפ֣וֹת | Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 41:23 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7710, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
