Strong’s definition
properly, to scrape out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association)
KJV gloss list in the source
abiding, gather together, cleave, smite with the scab.
Source pronunciation notation: saw-fakh'
Derivation recorded by Strong
or שָׂפַח; (Isaiah 3:17), a primitive root;
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