Cleft
שֶׁ֫סַעStrong’s H8157shesa (she-sa)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shesa is the Hebrew word usually translated “cleft of” and “cleft”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.”
Meaning
- Cleft, cloven, split
How it's translated
- a cleft of 3
- and a cleft 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 3
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 11:7And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:26The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
- Deuteronomy 14:6And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫סַע shesa · cleft
cleft, cloven, split
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cleft” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLEFT, participle passive
of cleave. Divided; split; parted asunder.
All definitions and other forms of “cleft”
CLEFT, noun
- A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as the cleft of a rock. Isaiah 2:21
- A disease in horses; a crack on the bought of the pastern.
- A piece made by splitting; as a cleft of wood.
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.