[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%96%D7%99%D7%A3/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ז](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/zayin/)‎ / זִיף‎

# זִיף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2128

**Ziph** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ziph [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2128/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זִיף: n.pr. n.pr.loc. n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2128/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. n.pr.loc. city S.E. from Hebron, Jos 15:55 1 Ch 2:42 2 Ch 11:8, mod. Tell Zîf; RobBR i. 492, 498 Guérin Judée iii. 159 ff.: מִדְבַּר־ז׳ 1 S 23:14, 15; 26:2(×2); c. ה loc., זִ֫יפָה 1 S 23:24. city of southern Judah Jos 15:24, site unknown. n.pr.m. a son of יְהַלֶּלְאֵל of Judah 1 Ch 4:16, whether related to n.pr.loc. supr. does not appear. 𝔊 Ζαφα, Ζιφ(αι). (1 Ch 2:42 v. supr.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Ziph (5); Ziph (3); to (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.24/#tree)

זִ֥יף וָטֶ֖לֶם וּבְעָלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* Ziph and Telem and Bealoth

*JPS 1917:* Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth;

[Joshua 15:55](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.55/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.55/#tree)

מָע֥וֹן ׀ כַּרְמֶ֖ל וָזִ֥יף וְיוּטָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* Maon Carmel and Ziph and Juttah

*JPS 1917:* Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2128.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2128/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).