- Original: ספה - Transliteration: Caphah - Phonetic: saw-faw' - Definition: 1. to sweep or snatch away, catch up, destroy, consume a. (Qal) 1. to be snatched away 2. to sweep or snatch away b. (Niphal) 1. to be swept away, be destroyed 2. to be caught up, be captured c. (Hiphil) to catch up, gather - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1531 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; properly to scrape (literally to shave; but usually figuratively) together (that is to accumulate or increase) or away (that is to scatter remove or ruin; intransitively to perish): - add augment consume destroy heap join perish put. Total KJV Occurrences: 20 • add, 3 Deuteronomy 29:19; Isaiah 29:1; Isaiah 30:1 • augment, 1 Numbers 32:14 • consume, 1 Isaiah 7:20 • consumed, 5 Genesis 19:15; Genesis 19:17; Numbers 16:26; 1 Samuel 12:25; Jeremiah 12:4 • destroy, 3 Genesis 18:23; Genesis 18:24; Psalm 40:14 • destroyed, 2 1 Chronicles 21:12; Proverbs 13:23 • heap, 1 Deuteronomy 32:23 • joined, 1 Isaiah 13:15 • perish, 2 1 Samuel 26:10; 1 Samuel 27:1 • Put, 1 Jeremiah 7:21