סָפִיחַ
safiach · what grows by itself
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5599 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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safiach (סָפִיחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “what grows by itself”.
Without being sown, from the grain dropped in the previous harvest.
How to say it
sa·fi·ach
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
- What springs up unsown from fallen grain.
- Overflowing waters.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- What grows by itself ×2
- what grows of itself ×2
- floods ×1
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Leviticus 25:5
What grows by itself from your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your unpruned vine you shall not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
- Leviticus 25:11
That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; you shall not sow, and you shall not reap what grows by itself and you shall not gather its unpruned vines.
- 2 Kings 19:29
And this shall be for you the sign: this year you will eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that; and in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
- Job 14:19
water wears away stones; its floods sweep away the dust of the earth; and the hope of a mortal you make perish.
- Isaiah 37:30
And this shall be for you the sign: this year you will eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that; and in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.