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# סוּפָה

Biblical Hebrew

**Suphah** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Suphah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5d5_5bc_5e4_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סוּפָה²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5d5_5bc_5e4_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. E. of Jordan;—only in phr. וָהֵב בְּס׳ in ancient poet. fragment Nu 21:14; TristrMoab 50 cp. Ṣāfieh (صافيه), SE. oasis of Dead Sea, but ס = ص is most improb.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Suphah (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 21:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.14/#tree)

עַל־כֵּן֙ יֵֽאָמַ֔ר בְּסֵ֖פֶר מִלְחֲמֹ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה אֶת־וָהֵ֣ב בְּסוּפָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַנְּחָלִ֖ים אַרְנֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* therefore it.is.said in the.book of.the.wars of.Yahweh (et) Waheb in Suphah and (et) the wadis Arnon

*JPS 1917:* wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD: Vaheb in Suphah, and the valleys of Arnon,

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5d5_5bc_5e4_5b8_5d4/): 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).