שָׁזַף
shazaf · see, look on, scorch
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7805 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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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
- To look on, catch sight of.
- 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.