Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweep. 2. (a.) Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation.

Multi-Version Concordance Sweeping (3 Occurrences) Proverbs 28:3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT) Isaiah 21:1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land. (See JPS NIV) Jeremiah 30:23 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, even his wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked. (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS)