Division
סְעִפָּהStrong’s H5587saiph (sa-iph)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saiph is the Hebrew word usually translated “crutches”, “disquieting thoughts” and “disquieting thoughts my”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.”
Meaning
- Ambivalence, division, divided opinion
- Disquietings
How it's translated
- the crutches 1
- in disquieting thoughts 1
- disquieting thoughts my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- 1 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
סְעִפָּה saiph · division
ambivalence, division, divided opinion
שְׂעִפִּים seipim · disquietings
disquietings
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “division” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DIVISION, noun
S as z. [Latin See Divide.]
- The act of dividing or separating into parts, any entire body.
- The state of being divided.
- That which divides or separates; that which keeps apart; partition.
- The part separated from the rest by a partition or line, real or imaginary; as the divisions of a field.
All definitions
- A separate body of men; as, communities and divisions of men.
- A part or distinct portion; as the divisions of a discourse.
- A part of an army or militia; a body consisting of a certain number of brigades usually two, and commanded by a major general.
- A part of a fleet, or a select number of ships under a commander, and distinguished by a particular flag or pendant.
- Disunion; discord; variance; difference.“There was a division among the people” John 7:43
- Space between the notes of music, or the dividing of the tones.
- Distinction.“I will put a division between my people and thy people” Exodus 8:23
- The separation of voters in a legislative house.
- In arithmetic, the dividing of a number or quantity into any parts assigned; or the rule by which is found how many times one number is contained in another.
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.