נָפָה
nafa · height, sieve
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5299 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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nafa (נָפָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “height, sieve”.
A height, a hill, as in the name "heights of Dor"; the same word also names a sieve.
How to say it
na·fa
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A tool with holes for sifting grain.
- Ridges: "those of Dor".
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- heights ×3
- sieve ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Joshua 11:2
and to the kings who were in the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the Shephelah, and in the heights of Dor on the west,
- Joshua 12:23
the king of Dor in the heights of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;
- 1 Kings 4:11
Ben-abinadab, all the heights of Dor; Taphath daughter of Solomon was his wife;
- Isaiah 30:28
and his blast like a torrent that sweeps away, that reaches up to the neck, to sift the nations with a sieve of falsehood; and a bridle that leads astray is on the jaws of the peoples.