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שָׁסַף

sha.saph

to hew

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Strong’s H8158Verb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

he cut to pieces1

In the text

1 Samuel 15:33וַיְשַׁסֵּף
But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שָׁסַף] vb. dub.: Pi. hew in pieces;—1 S 15:33

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.