שׁוּף
shuf · strike, crush
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7779 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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shuf (שׁוּף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “strike, crush”.
A rare verb whose sense is debated: "strike", "crush", or "snap at". Genesis 3:15 uses it both for what the woman's offspring does to the serpent's head and what the serpent does to his heel.
How to say it
shuf
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
- Deal a wounding blow; batter.
- Wrap around completely.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- will strike ×2
- bruises me ×1
- will cover me ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the heel.”
- Job 9:17
he who bruises me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds for nothing.
- Psalms 139:11
And if I say, “Surely darkness will cover me, and the light around me become night,”
And 1 more times.