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# סָפַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5603

**cover** — used 6 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

cover [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5603/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָפַן: vb. cover, cover in, panel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5603/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cover, cover in, panel (NH סָפַן is respect, care for; Ph. מספנת roof, Lzb330; Aramaic סְפַן Ithpe. be covered, overlaid; Assyrian sapânu (sometimes šapânu !), cover, overwhelm Dl508; sapannu, concealment, obscurity, depth (of sea); Ethiopic ሰፈነ invalescere, percrebescere, praevalere, Di406);— Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּסְפֹּן אֶת־הַבַּיִת גֵּבִים 1 K 6:9 and he covered in the house with beams (?); Inf. abs. סָפוֹן בָּאָ֑רֶז Je 22:14 (reading with JDMich Hi Gf Or Gie Co, חַלּוֹנָיו סָפוֹן, for MT חַלּוֹנַי וְסָפוּן, cf. DrSm xxx) covering (it) in, panelling (it) with cedar; Pt. pass. סָפוּן בְּאֶרֶז 1 K 7:7, סָפֻן בְּאֶרֶז v 3; pl. בְּבָֽתֵּיכֶם סְפוּנִים Hg 1:4 in your panelled houses.—סָפוּן strangely = reserved, laid up, Dt 33:21, and = hidden v 19 שְׂפֻנֵי טְמֻנֵי חוֹל (only here with שׂ; both in sense of צָפוּן \[read this?

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[it was\] paneled (2); paneled (2); \[was\] reserved (1).

## In the verses

[Haggai 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAG.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAG.1.4/#tree)

הַעֵ֤ת לָכֶם֙ אַתֶּ֔ם לָשֶׁ֖בֶת בְּבָתֵּיכֶ֣ם סְפוּנִ֑ים וְהַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּ֖ה חָרֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* \[does\].a time? \[belong\].to you you to dwell in houses your paneled and the house (the) this \[is\].desolate

*JPS 1917:* 'Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste?

[1 Kings 6:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.9/#tree)

וַיִּ֥בֶן אֶת־הַבַּ֖יִת וַיְכַלֵּ֑הוּ וַיִּסְפֹּ֤ן אֶת־הַבַּ֙יִת֙ גֵּבִ֔ים וּשְׂדֵרֹ֖ת בָּאֲרָזִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.built (et) the house and he finished.it and he.paneled (et) the house beams and planks with (the) cedar(s)

*JPS 1917:* So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered in the house with planks of cedar over beams.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5603.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5603/): 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).