To bruise
שׁוּףStrong’s H7779shuph
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shuph is the Hebrew word usually translated “bruise you”, “bruise him” and “crushes me”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
Meaning
- To bruise, crush, gape upon, desire?, seize?, strike out?(Qal) to fall upon, bruise
How it's translated
- he will bruise you 1
- you will bruise him 1
- he crushes me 1
- it will crush me 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שׁוּף shuph · to bruise
1) to bruise, crush, gape upon, desire?, seize?, strike out? 1a) (Qal) to fall upon, bruise
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bruise” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BRUISE, verb transitive
s as z. To crush by beating or pounding with an instrument not edged or pointed. When applied to animal flesh or to vegetables, a bruise is a contusion that impairs the natural solidity and texture of the part, but often without breaking the skin. When applied to minerals and similar substances, it signifies to break them, and often to reduce them to a coarse powder.
All definitions and other forms of “bruise”
BRUISE, noun
A contusion; a hurt upon the flesh of animals, upon plants or other bodies, with a blunt or heavy instrument.
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.