Flood
שֶׁ֫טֶףStrong’s H7858sheteph (she-teph)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sheteph is the Hebrew word usually translated “flood” and “flood of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.”
Meaning
- Flood, downpour
How it's translated
- for the flood 1
- to a flood of 1
- and flood of 1
- by flood 1
- the flood 1
- and with a flood 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
- Nahum 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:22In contextAnd with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
- Job 38:25Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
- Psalms 32:6For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
- Proverbs 27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
- Nahum 1:8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫טֶף sheteph · flood
flood, downpour Also means: she.tseph (שֶׁצֶף "overflowing" H8241)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flood” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLOOD, noun
flud.
- A great flow of water; a body of moving water; particularly, a body of water, rising, swelling and overflowing land not usually covered with water.
- The flood by way of eminence, the deluge; the great body of water which inundated the earth in the days of Noah.
- A river; a sense chiefly poetical.
- The flowing of the tide; the semi-diurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; opposed to ebb.
All definitions and other forms of “flood”
- A great quantity; an inundation; an overflowing; abundance; superabundance; as a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
- A great body or stream of any fluid substance; as a flood of light; a flood of lava.
- Menstrual discharge.
FLOOD, verb transitive
To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, to flood a meadow.
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.