Cleft
סָעִיףStrong’s H5585saiph (sa-iph)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saiph is the Hebrew word usually translated “cleft of”, “clefts of” and “on branches its”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.”
Meaning
- Cleft, branchcleft (of a crag) · branches, boughs
How it's translated
- in cleft of 1
- cleft of 1
- and in clefts of 1
- on branches its 1
- branches its 1
- clefts of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Judges 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 15:11Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
- Isaiah 2:21To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
- Isaiah 17:6Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
- Isaiah 27:10Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
- Isaiah 57:5Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
Hebrew dictionary
סָעִיף saiph · cleft
1) cleft, branch 1a) cleft (of a crag) 1b) branches, boughs
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cleft” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLEFT, participle passive
of cleave. Divided; split; parted asunder.
All definitions and other forms of “cleft”
CLEFT, noun
- A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as the cleft of a rock. Isaiah 2:21
- A disease in horses; a crack on the bought of the pastern.
- A piece made by splitting; as a cleft of wood.
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.