שׁוּף shûwph

Meaning

properly, to gape, i.e. snap at; figuratively, to overwhelm

In the King James Version: break, bruise, cover.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
• Job 9:17 For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
• Psalms 139:11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—