saif · cleft, branch

What it means

saif (סָעִיף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cleft, branch”.

Cleft: a crack or opening in a rock; also a branch of a tree.

How to say it

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

1. A crack in a rock.
2. The high branches of a tree, where the last fruit is left.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• branches ×2
• cleft ×2
• clefts ×1
• crevices ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×2
• Isaiah×4

• Judges 15:8

  He struck them leg on thigh, a great blow; and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the crag of Etam.

• Judges 15:11

  Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cleft of the crag of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? What is this you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

• Isaiah 2:21

  to go into the clefts of the rocks and into the crevices of the crags, from before the dread of YHWH and from the majesty of his loftiness, when he rises to terrify the earth.

• Isaiah 17:6

  And there will be left in it gleanings, as when beating an olive tree: two, three olives at the top of the highest branch, four, five on its fruitful branches, declares YHWH, Elohim of Israel.

• Isaiah 27:10

  For the fortified city is solitary, an abode sent away and forsaken like the wilderness; there the calf will graze, and there it will lie down and consume its branches.

• Isaiah 57:5

  who inflame yourselves among the terebinths, under every leafy tree, who slaughter the children in the streambeds, under the clefts of the rocks?