Quick Definition
to overflow
Strong's Definition
to gush; by implication, to inundate, cleanse; by analogy, to gallop, conquer
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: drown, (over-) flow(-whelm, rinse, run, rush, (throughly) wash (away).
TWOT Reference: 2373
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁטַף (sha.taph) — to overflow. 1) to wash, rinse, overflow, engulf, rinse or wash off 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to overflow 1a2) to flow, run 1a3) to rinse or wash off 1b) (Niphal) to be swept away, be rinsed out 1c) (Pual) to be rinsed, be scoured and rinsed
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · שֶׁטֶף · שֶׁצֶף
Flow | verb qal
to flow, to overflow = process by which water flows with great strength and potentially destructive force; ≈ often used as an image for large quantities or overwhelming destruction, military strength, or suffering
2CH 32:4 · PSA 69:3 · PSA 69:16 · PSA 78:20 · PSA 124:4 · ISA 8:8 · ISA 28:2 · ISA 28:17 · ISA 30:28 · ISA 43:2 · ISA 66:12 · JER 47:2 · JER 47:2 · EZK 13:11 · EZK 13:13 · EZK 38:22
Move | verb qal
to sweep through literally: to overflow; hence: = action by which humans or animals move through an area with an irresistable force
Intense | verb qal
to overwhelm literally: to overflow; hence: = state in which an event happens with great intensity, ◄ compared to an overwhelming flood
Non-Exist | verb nif, verb qal
to be swept away literally: to be overflown; hence: = causative process by which large groups of humans are caused to disappear, ◄ as if they were swept away by a flood
Non-Exist | verb qal
to wash away, to sweep away literally: overflow; hence: = causative process by which large quantities of water remove objects from their location
Clean | verb qal, verb nif, verb pu'al | ≈ מרק
to wash, to rinse, to wash away to overflow; hence: = causative action by which humans use water to remove dirt from an object
Quench
to drown, to extinguish, to sweep away literally: to overflow; hence: = causative process by which large quantities of water cause a fire to come to an end
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁטַף vb. overflow, rinse or wash off Qal overflow
flow, run
lit., rinse or wash off
Niph. be rinsed out, off
Pu. it shall be scoured and rinsed.
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