שָׁאַףshâʼaph/shaw-af'/
HebrewH760214 occurrences (KJV)
to inhale eagerly; figuratively, to cover; by implication, to be angry; also to hasten
KJV renders it: desire (earnestly), devour, haste, pant, snuff up, swallow up.
Where it appears
- Job 5:5whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
- Job 7:2As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
- Job 36:20Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
- Ps 56:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Silent Dove in Distant Lands.” A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
- Ps 56:2My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
- Ps 57:3He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
- Ps 119:131I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.
- Eccl 1:5The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
- Isa 42:14“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
- Jer 2:24a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.
- Jer 14:6The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation.
- Ezek 36:3therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;
- Amos 2:7They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.