# H5595 סָפָה

סָפָה (çâphâh), Strong’s H5595: properly, to scrape (literally, to shave; but usually figuratively) together (i.e. to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e. to scatter, remove, or ruin;… KJV: add…

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*çâphâh* — properly, to scrape (literally, to shave; but usually figuratively) together (i.e. to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e. to scatter, remove, or ruin;…

KJV: add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.

Occurs 20 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [סָפָה] vb. sweep or snatch away, catch up
- Qal
- 1 intrans. be snatched away
- 2 trans. sweep away
- Niph.
- 1 be swept away, destroyed
- 2 be caught up, captured
- Hiph. I will catch up against them calamities

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 18:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=23) — Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
- [Genesis 18:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=24) — What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who…
- [Genesis 19:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=15) — When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are…
- [Genesis 19:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=17) — It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t…
- [Numbers 16:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=26) — He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs…
- [Numbers 32:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=14) — “Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of the LORD…
- [Deuteronomy 29:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=18) — and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace…
- [Deuteronomy 32:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=23) — “I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
- [1 Samuel 12:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/12?v=25) — But if you keep doing evil, you will be consumed, both you and your king.”
- [1 Samuel 26:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/26?v=10) — David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him; or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle…