# סָעִיף (saif)

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

Strong’s H5585. 6 Old Testament occurrences.

a fissure (of rocks); also a bough (as subdivided)

King James renderings: (outmost) branch, clift, top.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/saif-h5585

## Occurrences

- [Judges 15:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/15/8) — And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
- [Judges 15:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/15/11) — Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers ove…
- [Isaiah 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/21) — To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he…
- [Isaiah 17:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/17/6) — Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or f…
- [Isaiah 27:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/27/10) — Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shal…
- [Isaiah 57:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/5) — Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?