Words

סָפָה H5595

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sweep away

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

destroy / consume

Note

To sweep off, snatch away (18:23–24; 19:15, 17; Num 16:26). Kept apart from שָׁחַת "ruin"

Rulings

2

Occurrences (2)

Genesis 18

• 18:23 And Abraham approached and said, "Will you even sweep away the just with the guilty one?
• 18:24 Perhaps there are fifty just in the middle of the city: will you even sweep away, and not lift for the place because of the fifty just who are in its inward part?