safach · join, attach

What it means

safach (סָפַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “join, attach”.

To join, to attach someone to a group.

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. Become part of a group; put one thing into another.
2. To cover the head with dry sores.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• I may not join ×1
• attach me ×1
• mixing in ×1
• they huddle together ×1
• they will attach themselves ×1
• will strike with scabs ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×2
• Job×1
• Isaiah×2
• Habakkuk×1

• 1 Samuel 2:36

  And it will be that everyone who is left in your house will come to bow down to him for a piece of silver and a round loaf of bread, and will say, ‘Please attach me to one of the priestly offices so that I may eat a morsel of bread.’”

• 1 Samuel 26:19

  Now please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If YHWH has incited you against me, may he smell an offering; but if it is human beings, cursed be they before YHWH, for they have driven me out today so that I may not join the inheritance of YHWH, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

• Job 30:7

  Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.

• Isaiah 3:17

  Adonai will strike with scabs the crown of the daughters of Zion, and YHWH will lay bare their nakedness.

• Isaiah 14:1

  For YHWH will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will settle them on their own ground; and the resident alien will join them, and they will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

• Habakkuk 2:15

  Woe to the one who gives his neighbor drink, mixing in your fury, and even making him drunk, in order to look on their nakedness!