Lexical Summary saiph: a cleft, branch Original Word: סָעִיףTransliteration: saiph Phonetic Spelling: (saw-eef') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a cleft, branch Meaning: a fissure, a bough Strong's Concordance outmost branch, clift, top From ca'aph; a fissure (of rocks); also a bough (as subdivided) -- (outmost) branch, clift, top. see HEBREW ca'aph Brown-Driver-Briggs H5585. saiph [סָעִיף] noun [masculine] 1 cleft. 2 branch; — 1 cleft of a crag, construct סֶלַע סְעִיף Judges 15:8, 11; plural construct הַסְּלָעִים וּבִסְעִפֵֿי Isaiah 2:21; הַסּ ׳סְעִיפֵי 57:5. 2 branches, boughs, plural construct הַמֹּרִיָּה סְעִפֵֿי Isaiah 17:6 (so divide, Hi Kn Di DrSm xxx Du and others) the boughs of the fruit-tree; suffix סְעִיפֶיהָ 27:10 (of ruined city; compare קְצִירָהּ 27:11). |