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Lamentations 2:15
“All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5606 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to clap the hands (in token of compact, derision, grief, indignation, or punishment); by implication of satisfaction, to be enough; by implication of excess, to vomit
- Derivation
- or שָׂפַק; (1 Kings 20:10; Job 27:23; Isaiah 2:6), a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- clap, smite, strike, suffice, wallow.
- Grammar
- סָֽפְק֨וּ — verb Qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 10 times in the Hebrew Bible.Numbers 24:101 Kings 20:10Job 27:23Job 34:26Job 34:37
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 סָפַק 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.