צוּף

tsuf · overflow

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6687 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

tsuf (צוּף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “overflow”.

Flood over.

How to say it

tsuf

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. Water rising and covering.
  2. To make something heavy rise to the surface.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • flowed ×1
  • he made flow ×1
  • made the iron float ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Deuteronomy 11:4

    and what he did to the army of Egypt, to its horses and to its chariots, how he made the waters of the Sea of Reeds flow over their faces when they pursued you, and YHWH made them perish to this day;

  • 2 Kings 6:6

    The man of Elohim said, “Where did it fall?” He showed him the place, and he cut off a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float.

  • Lamentations 3:54

    Waters flowed over my head; I said, “I am cut off.”