King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5585
Transliteration: saiph
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-eef')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a cleft, branch
Meaning: a fissure, a bough
Word Summary
saiph: a cleft, branch
Original Word: סָעִיףTransliteration: saiph
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-eef')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a cleft, branch
Meaning: a fissure, a bough
Strong's Concordance
outmost branch, clift, top From ca'aph; a fissure (of rocks); also a bough (as subdivided) -- (outmost) branch, clift, top.
see HEBREW ca'aph
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5585. saiph
[סָעִיף] noun [masculine]
1 cleft.
2 branch; —
1 cleft of a crag, construct סֶלַע סְעִיף Judges 15:8, 11; plural construct הַסְּלָעִים וּבִסְעִפֵֿי Isaiah 2:21; הַסּ ׳סְעִיפֵי 57:5.
2 branches, boughs, plural construct הַמֹּרִיָּה סְעִפֵֿי Isaiah 17:6 (so divide, Hi Kn Di DrSm xxx Du and others) the boughs of the fruit-tree; suffix סְעִיפֶיהָ 27:10 (of ruined city; compare קְצִירָהּ 27:11).