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Strong's #5606 - שָׂפַק
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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(1 Kings 20:10, Job 27:23, Is Job 2:6)
1) to clap, slap
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to slap, clap
1a2) to slap, chastise
1a3) to splash, throw up
1b) (Hiphil) to cause to clap
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2499) qpx (ספק SPQ) AC: Clasp CO: ? AB: ?
V) qpx (ספק SPQ) - Clasp: [df: qpV] KJV (10): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) clap, smite, please, strike, suffice, wallow - Strongs: H5606 (שָׂפַק)
Nm ) qpx (ספק SPQ) - Clasp: [df: qpV] KJV (2): sufficiency, stroke - Strongs: H5607 (שֶׂפֶק)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
; Arabic 
is be niggardly, scanty, Lane1573); — Qal Imperfect 3 masculine singular יִשְׂמֹּק 1 Kings 20:10, subject dust, with לְ of thing.
שָׂפַק i.q. סָפַק No. I, to strike (see שֶׂפֶק ), specially, to clap the hands, Job 27:23 according to several MSS. (others ספק).
Hiphil, to strike a covenant, to make an agreement, either because it was customary to strike the hands together and join them in making a covenant, or from the primary signification of striking (comp. פָּגַע No. 2). Isaiah 2:6, בְּיַלְדֵי נָכְרִים יַשְׂפִּיקוּ “they make leagues with the children of strangers.”
Derivative, שֶׂפֶק.
II.
שָׂפַק i.q. כָפַק No. II (which see), to be redundant, to abound. Syr. ܣܦܰܩ, 1 Kings 20:10 see סֶפֶק.
