# שָׁאַף (shaaf)

Israeli respelling: sha-af. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7602. 14 Old Testament occurrences.

to inhale eagerly; figuratively, to cover; by implication, to be angry; also to hasten

King James renderings: desire (earnestly), devour, haste, pant, snuff up, swallow up.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shaaf-h7602

## Occurrences

- [Job 5:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/5) — Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
- [Job 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/2) — As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
- [Job 36:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/20) — Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
- [Psalms 56:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/56/1) — Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
- [Psalms 56:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/56/2) — Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
- [Psalms 57:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/57/3) — He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his tru…
- [Psalms 119:131](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/131) — I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
- [Ecclesiastes 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/1/5) — The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
- [Isaiah 42:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/14) — I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devou…
- [Jeremiah 2:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/24) — A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her…
- [Jeremiah 14:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/6) — And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
- [Ezekiel 36:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/3) — Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might…
- [Amos 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/2/7) — That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto…
- [Amos 8:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/4) — Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,