שָׁאַף shâʼaph

Meaning

to inhale eagerly; figuratively, to cover; by implication, to be angry; also to hasten

In the King James Version: desire (earnestly), devour, haste, pant, snuff up, swallow up.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Job 5:5 The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
• Job 7:2 Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
• Job 36:20 Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
• Psalms 56:1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.
• Psalms 56:2 My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.
• Psalms 57:3 He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
• Psalms 119:131 I open my mouth and pant, longing for Your commandments.
• Ecclesiastes 1:5 The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.
• Isaiah 42:14 “I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.
• Jeremiah 2:24 a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
• Jeremiah 14:6 Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
• Ezekiel 36:3 therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
• Amos 2:7 They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
• Amos 8:4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,