To lop
סָעַףStrong’s H5586saaph (sa-aph)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Saaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “about to lop off”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.”
Meaning
- (Piel) to cut off, lop off boughs
How it's translated
- about to lop off 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
סָעַף saaph · to lop
(Piel) to cut off, lop off boughs
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lop” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LOP, verb transitive
[Eng. flap. The primary sense is evidently to fall or fell, or to strike down, and I think it connected with flap.]
- To cut off, as the top or extreme part of any thing; to shorten by cutting off the extremities; as, to lop a tree or its branches.
- To cut off, as exuberances; to separate, as superfluous parts.
- to cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop the trees or saplings of a hedge.
- To let fall; to flap; as, a horse lops his ears.
All definitions and other forms of “lop”
LOP, noun
that which is cut from trees.
LOP, noun
a flea. [Local.]
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.