שָׁזַף

shazaf · see, look on, scorch

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7805 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

shazaf (שָׁזַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “see, look on, scorch”.

To look at, to catch sight of; also to tan or scorch, said of the sun.

How to say it

sha·zaf

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 look on, catch sight of.
  2. To darken the skin, said of the sun.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • has scorched me ×1
  • looked on him ×1
  • looked on it ×1

Where it appears

  • Job 20:9

    The eye that looked on him will not do so again, and his place will no longer catch sight of him.

  • Job 28:7

    A path that the bird of prey does not know, nor has the eye of the falcon looked on it;

  • Song of Songs 1:6

    Do not look at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. The sons of my mother were angry with me; they set me to keep the vineyards; my vineyard, my own, I have not kept.