Caphah means “perish” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5595 — psomizo in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5595 סָפָה (caphah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. caphah (saw-faw') v. 1. (properly) to scrape 2. (literally) to shave It has 20 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include perish, increase, together, and shave. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
caphah (saw-faw') v. 1. (properly) to scrape 2. (literally) to shave 3. (usually, figuratively) to scrape together (i.e. to accumulate or increase) 4. (or) to scrape away (i.e. to scatter, remove, or ruin) 5. (intransitively) to perish [a primitive root] KJV: add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5595. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to snatch
Usage: 1) to sweep or snatch away, catch up, destroy, consume 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be snatched away 1a2) to sweep or snatch away 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be swept away, be destroyed 1b2) to be caught up, be captured 1c) (Hiphil) to catch up, gather
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render caphah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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20 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
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 consumed in the iniquity of the city.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5595.
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
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 consumed in the iniquity of the city.
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 all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of their's, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
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.
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 in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
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 perish.
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 escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
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 me evil.
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
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 the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
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, that they may add sin to sin:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
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, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5595, grouped by book.
Caphah (Strong's H5595) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "perish". caphah (saw-faw') v. 1. (properly) to scrape 2. (literally) to shave
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's H5595 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5595 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as perish, increase, together, and shave. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.