סָפָה (sāpâ) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning sweep away. It appears
20 times
in 9 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H5595).
Also rendered
to snatch
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1531)
Range of meaning (TWOT 1531)sweep, snatch away, catch up; be snatched away, sweep away; be swept away, destroyed, be caught up, captured; scrape, together, away; add, augment, consume, heap, join, perish, put
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
סָפָהverb: sweep, snatch away, catch up
Qal
1.be snatched away
2.transitive sweep away
Niphal
1.be swept away, destroyed
2.be caught up, captured
Strong's H5595סָפָה: properly, to scrape (literally, to shave; but usually figuratively) together (i.e. to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e. to scatter, remove, or ruin; intransitively, to perish) KJV:add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.
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.