שָׁטַף (b. h.; cmp. טוּף, טָפַף II) 1) to wash, rinse. Zeb. XI, 6 (94ᵇ) ושׁוֹטְפוֹ, v. מָרַק; Tosef. ib. X, 13 ושׁוֹטְפָן. Tosef. Ḥull. X, 4 השׁוֹטֵף רחיליו חייב וכ׳ if one washes his lambs (in place of clipping), he is bound to give the priest’s share of the wool (that they shed); Ḥull. 137ᵃ; a. fr.—Part. pass. שָׁטוּף. Sabb. 99ᵃ (ref. to Ex. XXXV, 26) ש׳ בעזים וטווו בעזים 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 זיתיו וכ׳ if a stream carried off one’s olive-trees and deposited them in a neighbor’s field. B. Kam. X, 4 (115ᵇ) ש׳ נהר חמורו וכ׳ (Bab. ed. נחל) if a stream (ravine) carried off his own and his neighbor’s ass …, and he let go his own and saved his neighbor’s. Ib. 5 (117ᵇ) שְׁטָפָהּ נהר if the river washed it (the unlawfully taken field) away. Yoma 78ᵃ נחל שׁוֹטֵף 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. גּוּשׁ. Ex. R. s. 24 נתמלא … ובקש לשׁוֹטְפָן the genius of the sea became wroth against them, and wanted to drown them. Num. R. s. 19⁹ ויצאו מים רבים ושָׁטְפוּ כל וכ׳ many waters came forth, and flooded all those who murmured; Midr. Till. to Ps. LXXVIII, 20 (corr. acc.); a. fr.—V. שָׁטוּף.
    Hif. - הִשְׁטִיף same. Taan. 6ᵃ ומַשְׁטִיף את הזרעים (Ms. M. ששׁוֹטֵף, 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 ומִשְׁתַּטַּף וכ׳ and goes out (of the steam-room), and takes a shower bath in the outer room. Ib.ᵇ ובלבד שלא יִשְׁתַּטֵּף וכ׳ but he must not have a cold shower bath and then warm himself &c. 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 באש וכ׳ 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).