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נָפָה

na.phah

sieve

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Strong’s H5299aNoun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

a sieve of1

In the text

Isaiah 30:28בְּנָפַת
His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[נָפָה] n.f. sieve or other winnowing implement;—only cstr. Is 30:28

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.