שָׁטַף

שָׁטַף(b. h.; cmp. טוּף, טָפַף II) 1) to wash, rinse. Zeb.XI, 6 (94b) ושוֹטְפוֹ, v. מָרַק; Tosef. ib. X, 13 ושוֹטְפָן. Tosef.Ḥull.X, 4 השוֹטֵף רחיליו חייבוכ׳ if one washes his lambs (in place of clipping), he is bound to give the priests share of the wool (that they shed); Ḥull.137a; a. fr.Part. pass. שָׁטוּף. Sabb.99a (ref. to Ex. 35:26) ש׳ בעזים וטווו בעוים Ms. M. (ed. מן העזים) the hair was washed on the goats and spun on the goats; ib. 74b; Yalk. Ex. 370. 2) to flood, carry off, drown. B. Mets.VIII, 5 ש׳ נהר זיתיווכ׳ if a stream carried off ones olive-trees and deposited them in a neighbors field. B. Kam. X, 4 (115b) ש׳ נהר חמזדווכ׳ (Bab. ed. נחל) if a stream (ravine) carried off his own and his neighbors ass … and he let go his own and saved his neighbors. Ib. 5 (117b) שְׁטָפָהּ נהר if the river washed it (the unlawfully taken field) away. Yoma 78a נחל שוֹטֵף a swiftly running brook. Y.Shek.I, 46a ירד שֶׁטֶף … ושְׁטָפוֹ a rain shower came down and washed it (the mark on the grave) off. Y.B. Mets.VIII, end, 11d בששְׁטָפָן (not בששטן), v. גּוּש. Ex. R. s. 24 נתמלא … ובקש לשוֹטְפָן the genius of the sea became wroth against them, and wanted to drown them. Num. R. s. 199> ויצאו מים רבים ושָׁטְפוּ כלוכ׳ many waters came forth, and flooded all those who murmured; Midr. Till. to Ps. 78:20 (corr. acc.); a. fr.V. שָׁטוּף. Hif. הִשְׁטִיף same. Taan.6a ומַשְׁטִיף את הזרעים (Ms. M. ששוֹטַף, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) it (the heavy rain) washes the seeds away; Yalk. Joel 535 ומְשַׁטֵּף (Pi.).Part. pass. מוּשְׁטָף; pl. מוּשְׁטָפִים carried off, floating. Ex. R. l. c. לפי שראו … מ׳ על פני המים because they saw the bodies … floating on the water. Nif. נִשְׁטַף, Hithpa. הִשְׁתַּטֵּף, Nithpa. נִשְׁתַּטֵּף 1) to be washed, showered upon; to take a shower bath. Sabb.40a ויוצא ומִשְׁתַּטַּףוכ׳ and goes out (of the steam-room), and takes a shower bath in the outer room. Ib. b ובלבד שלא יִשְׁתַּטֵּףוכ׳ but he must not have a cold shower bath and then warm himself Tosef. ib. III (IV), 4; a. fr. 2) to be swept away, drowned. Sifré Deut. 307 מה ראו … שנִשְׁטְפוּ במים why were the men of the flood drowned in water?; Yalk. ib. 942 שיִשָּׁטְפוּ; Sifré l. c. מה … להִשְׁתַּטֵּף באשוכ׳ why were the men of Sodom … swept away by fire and sulphur?; Yalk. l. c. להִשָּׁטֵף; a. e.Trnsf. to be carried away by passion. Num. R. s. 917>; Sifré Num. 12 הרבה קידמוך ונִשְׁטְפוּ many women before thee have been carried away (into infidelity).