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To shrivel

צָפַדStrong’s H6821

tsaphad (tsa-phad)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Tsaphad is the Hebrew word usually translated “it has shriveled”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.”
Lamentations 4:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. To draw together, contract, draw up(Qal) to draw up, contract, shrivel
How it's translated
  • it has shriveled 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Lamentations 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    צָפַד tsaphad · to shrivel

    1) to draw together, contract, draw up 1a) (Qal) to draw up, contract, shrivel

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    SHRIVEL, verb intransitive

    shriv'l. [from the root of rivel.] To comtract; to draw or be drawn into wrinkles; to shrink and form corrugations; as, a leaf shrivels in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age.

      All definitions and other forms of “shrivel”

        SHRIV'EL, verb transitive

        To contract into wrinkles; to cause to shrink into corrugations. A scorching sun shrivels the blades of corn.

          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.