shaaf · pant, long for

What it means

shaaf (שָׁאַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pant, long for”.

To pant, to gasp; hence, to long for something, to pursue it eagerly.

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. To crush underfoot, harass the weak.
2. To breathe hard, like a woman in labor.
3. To long for something eagerly.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• tramples me ×2
• They who pant ×1
• gasp ×1
• hounding ×1
• it pants ×1
• long for ×1
• panted ×1
• pants after ×1
• sniffing ×1
• they pant for ×1
• others ×3

Where it appears

• Job×3
• Psalms×4
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×2

• Job 5:5

  His harvest the hungry eat, and from among the thorns they take it, and the trap pants after their wealth.

• Job 7:2

  Like a slave who pants for the shade, and like a hired worker who hopes for his wages,

• Job 36:20

  Do not long for the night, when peoples go up from their place.

• Psalms 56:1

  For the director. On The Silent Dove of the Distant Ones. Of David. A Miktam, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Show me favor, Elohim, for a mortal tramples me; all the day fighting, he oppresses me.

• Psalms 56:2

  Those who lie in wait for me trample me all the day, for many fight against me with haughtiness.

• Psalms 57:3

  He will send from the heavens and save me, when the one who tramples me reproaches me; Selah. Elohim will send his loyal love and his truth.

• Psalms 119:131

  My mouth I opened wide and panted, because I longed for your commandments.

• Ecclesiastes 1:5

  And the sun rises, and the sun goes down, and it pants toward its place; there it rises.

• Isaiah 42:14

  “I have kept silent for ages past; I have been still, I have restrained myself; like a woman giving birth I will groan; I will pant and gasp at once.

• Jeremiah 2:24

  a wild donkey used to the wilderness, in the craving of her soul sniffing the wind; her heat, who can turn it back? All who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her.

• Jeremiah 14:6

  And the wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for the wind like jackals; their eyes fail, for there is no grass.

• Ezekiel 36:3

  therefore prophesy and say, Thus says Adonai YHWH: Precisely because of making you desolate and hounding you from all around, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations, and you have come up on the lip of the tongue and into the slander of the people,

• Amos 2:7

  They who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the humble; and a man and his father go to the same girl, so as to profane my holy name.

• Amos 8:4

  Hear this, you who pant after the needy, and seek to bring to an end the poor of the land,