Study
Word study

Word study

Hebrew

To scrape

סָחָהStrong’s H5500

sachah (sa-chah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Sachah is the Hebrew word usually translated “scrape away”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.”
Ezekiel 26:4 KJV
Meaning
  1. To scrape(Piel) to scrape clean, scour
How it's translated
  • and i will scrape away 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 1

1 book in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    סָחָה sachah · to scrape

    1) to scrape 1a) (Piel) to scrape clean, scour

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “scrape” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    SCRAPE, verb transitive

    [Latin scribo, Gr. to write. See Grave.]

    1. To rub the surface of any thing with a sharp or rough instrument, or with something hard; as, to scrap the floor; to scrape a vessel for cleaning it; to scrape the earth; to scrape the body. Job 2:8
    2. To clean by scraping. Leviticus 14:41
    3. To remove or take off by rubbing.“I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock” Ezekiel 26:4
    4. To act upon the surface with a grating noise.
    All definitions and other forms of “scrape”

      SCRAPE, verb intransitive

      1. To make a harsh noise.
      2. To play awkwardly on a violin.
      3. To make an awkward bow.

      SCRAPE, noun

      1. A rubbing.
      2. The sound of the foot drawn over the floor.
      3. A bow.
      4. Difficulty; perplexity; distress; that which harasses. [A low word.]

      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.