# סָפָה (safah)

Israeli respelling: sa-fah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5595. 20 Old Testament occurrences.

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; intransitively, to perish)

King James renderings: add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/safah-h5595

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 18:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/18/23) — And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
- [Genesis 18:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/18/24) — Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are ther…
- [Genesis 19:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/15) — And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be…
- [Genesis 19:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/17) — And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in…
- [Numbers 16:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/26) — And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be…
- [Numbers 32:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/14) — And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
- [Deuteronomy 29:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/19) — And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk…
- [Deuteronomy 32:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/23) — I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
- [1 Samuel 12:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/25) — But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
- [1 Samuel 26:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/26/10) — David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and pe…
- [1 Samuel 27:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/27/1) — And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily esc…
- [1 Chronicles 21:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/12) — Either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else…
- [Psalms 40:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/14) — Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish m…
- [Proverbs 13:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/23) — Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
- [Isaiah 7:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/20) — In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and th…
- [Isaiah 13:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/15) — Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
- [Isaiah 29:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/1) — Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
- [Isaiah 30:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/1) — Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, tha…
- [Jeremiah 7:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/21) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
- [Jeremiah 12:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/4) — How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed,…