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# סִפֻּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5604

**ceiling** — 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

ceiling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5604/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סִפֻּן: ceiling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5604/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] ceiling;—abs. הַסּ׳ 1 K 6:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Kings 6:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.15/#tree)

וַיִּבֶן֩ אֶת־קִיר֨וֹת הַבַּ֤יִת מִבַּ֙יְתָה֙ בְּצַלְע֣וֹת אֲרָזִ֔ים מִקַּרְקַ֤ע הַבַּ֙יִת֙ עַד־קִיר֣וֹת הַסִּפֻּ֔ן צִפָּ֥ה עֵ֖ץ מִבָּ֑יִת וַיְצַ֛ף אֶת־קַרְקַ֥ע הַבַּ֖יִת בְּצַלְע֥וֹת בְּרוֹשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and he.built (et) the.walls of the.house from inside with boards of.cedar(s) from the.floor of the.house to the.walls of the.ceiling he.overlaid wood from inside and he.overlaid (et) the.floor of the.house with boards of.cypresses

*JPS 1917:* And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house unto the joists of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5604.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5604/): 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).