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

Etymology

or שָׂפַק; (1 Kings 20:10; Job 27:23; Isaiah 2:6), a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• clap
• smite
• strike
• suffice
• wallow

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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