שֶׁצֶף
flood
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8241 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
Isaiah 1 verse
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, שצף (shetseph) means “flood.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Its uses cluster heavily in Isaiah (100% of all occurrences). A true hapax — its single appearance is Isaiah 54:8. Sharing its root, it stands alongside שטף and שטף. 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 H8241 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 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: Little 1×
- American Standard Version: Overflowing 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Surge 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Flood of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8241 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8241 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8241 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8241 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- flood, downpour, overflowing
Word origin
Derived from שטף (shâṭaph) (H7857) — to wash.
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.
צָף
- (part. of צוּף q. v.)
- 1. floating, flat. Men. V, 8, a. e., v. מַחֲבַת.
- 2. shining, conspicuous.—Pl. צָפִים, צָפִין. Yalk. Num. 759 (expl. יקרות וקפאון, Zech. XIV, 6, v. קָפָא) הדברים … צ׳ לכם כהדין בולוס the things which are covered up to you in this world, shall be as clear to you &c., v. בּוּלָס; Yalk. Is. 316, a. Num. R. s. 19 צוֹפִים (cmp. part of חוּל: חָל a. חוֹל); Tanḥ. Ḥuck. 8 צְפוּיִם; v. צָפָה. e.g. Zechariah 14:6
*שָׁצַף
- , Pi. שִׁצֵּף (= שסף) to cut, slash. Sifra Thazr., Par. 5, ch. XVI (ref. to Lev. XIII, 56) אוֹתוֹ יכול יְשַׁצְּפֶנּוּ ויניחנו וכ׳ (Rab. יְשַׁסְּפֶנּוּ, ref. to I Sam. XV, 33) from, ‘he shall rend it.’ I might infer, that he should slash it and leave it in its place &c.; [Asheri to Neg. XI, 5: יתפרו, glossator יְשׁפְּצֶנּוּ (v. שפץ) patch it over; R. S. to Neg. l. c. יְצַפֶּנּוּ; Yalk. Lev. 553 ישופנו]. e.g. Leviticus 13:56
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8241, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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