shetef · flood, torrent

What it means

shetef (שֶׁטֶף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flood, torrent”.

A flood, a torrent of waters that sweeps all 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. A flow of water that overflows and sweeps away.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Daniel×2
• Nahum×1

• Job 38:25

  Who has cut a channel for the flood, and a way for the lightning of the thunders,

• Psalms 32:6

  For this every faithful one will pray to you in the time of finding; surely in the flood of many waters, to him they will not reach.

• Proverbs 27:4

  Cruelty of wrath and a flood of anger, but who can stand before jealousy?

• Daniel 9:26

  And after the sixty and two weeks an Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing; and the people of a leader who is to come will destroy the city and the holy place; and its end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.

• 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.

• Nahum 1:8

  But with a flood that passes over he will make an extermination of her place, and his enemies he will pursue into darkness.