shataf · rinse, overflow

What it means

shataf (שָׁטַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rinse, overflow”.

Rinse with plenty of water; in other passages, overflow, sweep away.

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 burst its banks and carry everything off.
2. To clean something by pouring water over it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• overflow ×5
• rinsed ×4
• overflowing ×3
• torrential ×3
• sweep away ×2
• sweeping ×2
• They washed ×1
• flood it ×1
• flowed ×1
• overflowed ×1
• others ×8

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×3
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×4
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×9
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×4

• Leviticus 6:28

  And the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured and rinsed in water.

• Leviticus 15:11

  And anyone whom the man with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:12

  And a vessel of clay that the man with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

• 1 Kings 22:38

  They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood —and the prostitutes bathed there— according to the word of YHWH that he had spoken.

• 2 Chronicles 32:4

  Many people were gathered, and they stopped up all the fountains and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?”

• 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.

• Psalms 69:2

  I have sunk in the mire of the depths, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the current sweeps me away.

• Psalms 69:15

  Let not the current of waters sweep me away, nor the depths swallow me, nor the well close its mouth over me.

• Psalms 78:20

  Look, he struck the rock and waters flowed, and streams overflowed; can he also give bread, or provide meat for his people?”

• Psalms 124:4

  then the waters would have swept us away, the torrent would have passed over our soul;

• Song of Songs 8:7

  Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers flood it; if a man gave all the wealth of his house for love, with contempt they would despise him.

• Isaiah 8:8

  and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through, it will reach up to the neck; and the spreading of its wings will be the fullness of the breadth of your land, Immanuel!”

• Isaiah 10:22

  For even if your people, Israel, were like the sand of the sea, a remnant of it will return; destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

• Isaiah 28:2

  Look, Adonai has one strong and mighty, like a downpour of hail, a destroying storm, like a downpour of mighty waters that sweep away; he casts it down to the earth with the hand.

• Isaiah 28:15

  Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have made an agreement; the sweeping whip, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made a lie our refuge, and in falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

• Isaiah 28:17

  And I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will carry away the refuge of lies, and the hiding place, waters will sweep it away.

• Isaiah 28:18

  And your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; the sweeping whip, when it passes through, you will be trampled by it.

• Isaiah 30:28

  and his blast like a torrent that sweeps away, that reaches up to the neck, to sift the nations with a sieve of falsehood; and a bridle that leads astray is on the jaws of the peoples.

• Isaiah 43:2

  When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not sweep you away; when you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flame will not burn against you.

• Isaiah 66:12

  For thus says YHWH: “Look, I will extend to her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing torrent; and you will suck; at the side you will be carried, and on her knees you will be dandled.

• Jeremiah 8:6

  I have paid attention and listened, but they do not speak what is right; no man repents of his evil, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns in his course, like a horse rushing into battle.

• Jeremiah 47:2

  Thus says YHWH: Look, waters are rising from the north and will become an overflowing torrent; and they will overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it; and the people will cry out, and every inhabitant of the land will wail,

• Ezekiel 13:11

  say to those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be a torrential rain, and you, hailstones, will fall, and a wind of storms will burst it open.

• Ezekiel 13:13

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: I will make burst a wind of storms in my fury, and a torrential rain will come in my anger, and hailstones in fury for total destruction.

• Ezekiel 16:9

  And I washed you with water and rinsed off your blood from you, and anointed you with oil.

• Ezekiel 38:22

  And I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood; and torrential rain, and hailstones, fire, and sulfur I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him.

• Daniel 11:10

  And his sons will wage war and gather a multitude of great forces, and one will come surely and overflow and pass through, and return and wage war up to his stronghold.

• Daniel 11:22

  And the arms of the flood will be flooded away from before him and be broken, and also the leader of the covenant.

• Daniel 11:26

  And those who eat his delicacies will break him, and his army will overflow, and many will fall slain.

• Daniel 11:40

  And at the time of the end the king of the south will clash with him, and the king of the north will storm against him with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships; and he will enter into the lands and overflow and pass through.

And 1 more times.