STRONGS NUMBER H7779


Word Summary
shuph: to bruise
Original Word: שׁוּף
Transliteration: shuph
Phonetic Spelling: (shoof)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to bruise
Meaning: to gape, snap at, to overwhelm
Strong's Concordance
break, bruise, cover

A primitive root; properly, to gape, i.e. Snap at; figuratively, to overwhelm -- break, bruise, cover.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7779. shuph

[שׁוּף‎] verb bruise (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic שְׁפַף שׁוּף,‎, rub off, away, grind (Exodus 32:20 ᵑ9 ᵑ7‎ for טָחַן‎); see especially DrGn; > Di and others think "" form of I. שׁאף‎); —

Qal Imperfect3masculine singular + 2 masculine singular עָקֵב תְּשׁוּפֶנּוּ וְּאַתָּה ראֹשׁ יְשׁוּפְךָ הוּאGenesis 3:15; יְשׁוּפֵנִי אֲשֶׁרבִּֿשְׂעָרָהJob 9:17; יְשׁוּפֵנִי השֶׁךְ אַךְPsalm 139:11 meaning unsuitable, read perhaps with Ew and others יְשׂוּבֵּנִיcover, screen, me.

שׁוֺפַךְ‎ see שׁוֺבַךְ‎. שׁוּפָמִי‎ see שְׁפוּפָם‎ below שׁפף‎.

I. שׁוּק‎ (√ of following, meaning dubious; Arabic is drive beast etc., carry on affairs; Ethiopic sustain; compare Arabic leg, especially shank, Aramaic שׁוֺקָאleg (rare), leg, thigh; connection dubious with Assyrian su‡u, street, Aramaic שׁוּקָא‎, , street, market-place (whence Arabic loan-word according to Frä187; but then = שׁ‎?), Palmyrene שוקid., Lzb373).