סָעִיף
sāʿîp
cleft
Strong's H5585NounHebrewTWOT 1527a

סָעִיף (sāʿîp) is a Hebrew noun meaning cleft. It appears 6 times in 2 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5585).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1527a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1527a)cleft, branch; fissure, bough, subdivided; clift, top
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

סָעִיף noun, masculine: cleft, branch

Strong's H5585 סָעִיף: a fissure (of rocks); also a bough (as subdivided)
KJV:(outmost) branch, clift, top.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1527: סעף sʿp — Root of: סָעִיף cleft, branch; סֵעֵף divided, half-hearted; סָעַף lop off boughs; סְעִפָּה division, divided opinion; סְעַפָּה bough, branch; סַרְעַפָּה bough

See it in Scripture

Judges 15:8Isaiah 2:21

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