To scorch
שָׁדַףStrong’s H7710shadaph (sha-daph)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shadaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “scorched of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.”
Meaning
- To scorch, blight(Qal) scorched (of ears of corn) (participle)
How it's translated
- scorched of 2
- and scorched of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שָׁדַף shadaph · to scorch
1) to scorch, blight 1a) (Qal) scorched (of ears of corn) (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scorch” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCORCH, verb transitive
- To burn superficially; to subject to a degree of heat that changes the color of a thing, or both the color and texture of the surface.
- To burn; to affect painfully with heat.
All definitions and other forms of “scorch”
SCORCH, verb intransitive
To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
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.