Sieve
נָפָהStrong’s H5299naphah (na-phah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Naphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “on heights of” and “sieve of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,”
Meaning
- Sieve, winnowing implement
- A lofty place, height
How it's translated
- and on heights of 1
- in a sieve of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
נָפָה naphah · sieve
sieve, winnowing implement
נָפָה naphah · height
a lofty place, height
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sieve” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIEVE, noun
siv. An utensil for separating flour from bran, or the fine part of any pulverized or fine substance from the coarse, by the hand; as a fine sieve; a coarse sieve It consists of a hoop with a hair bottom, and performs in the family the service of a bolter in a mill.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.