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1 Kings 22:38
“And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the Lord which he spake.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7857 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to gush; by implication, to inundate, cleanse; by analogy, to gallop, conquer
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- drown, (over-) flow(-whelm, rinse, run, rush, (throughly) wash (away).
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּשְׁטֹ֨ף — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 31 times in the Hebrew Bible.Leviticus 6:21Leviticus 15:11Leviticus 15:122 Chronicles 32:4Job 14:19
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שָׁטַף here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.