1) to gasp, pant, pant after, long for, breathe heavily 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to gasp, pant after, snuff up 1a2) to gasp or pant (with desire), pant after, be eager for 1a3) to thirst for one's blood (from actions of animals) (fig)
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H7602 — שָׁאַף
sha.aph · to long for · Hebrew/Aramaic
13 tagged verse occurrences
Job 5:5 · וְשָׁאַ֖ףWhose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.Job 7:2 · יִשְׁאַף־As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:Job 36:20 · תִּשְׁאַ֥ףDesire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.Psalm 56:1 · שְׁאָפַ֣נִיFor the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. A Psalm of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.Psalm 56:2 · שָׁאֲפ֣וּMine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me.Psalm 57:3 · שֹׁאֲפִ֣יHe will send from heaven, and save me, When he that would swallow me up reproacheth; [Selah God will send forth his lovingkindness and his truth.Psalm 119:131 · וָאֶשְׁאָ֑פָהI opened wide my mouth, and panted; For I longed for thy commandments.Ecclesiastes 1:5 · שׁוֹאֵ֛ףThe sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.Isaiah 42:14 · וְאֶשְׁאַ֖ףI have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.Jeremiah 2:24 · שָׁאֲפָ֣הa wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.Jeremiah 14:6 · שָׁאֲפ֥וּAnd the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.Amos 2:7 · הַשֹּׁאֲפִ֤יםthey 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 go unto the same maiden, to profane my holy name:Amos 8:4 · הַשֹּׁאֲפִ֖יםHear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,