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# סְפַרְוַיִם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5617

**Sepharvaim** — 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

Sepharvaim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5617/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סְפַרְוַ֫יִם: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5617/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city conquered by king of Assyrian;—ס׳ 2 K 17:14; 18:34 = סְפַרְוָ֑יִם Is 36:19, עִיר סְפַרָוָ֑יִם 2 K 19:13 = Is 37:13; סְפַרְוָ֑יִם also 2 K 17:31b Qr (Kt. ספרים); 𝔊 Σεπφαρουαιν, Επφαρουαιμ, etc., 𝔊L Σεπφαρειμ;—usually indentif. with Sippara (on a canal), between Bagdad and Babyl., a city in two parts, Sipp. of Šamaš (mod.Abbu Habba), and Sipp. of Anunitu(m), on opp. side of canal, hence du. ס׳ = the two Sipparas, SchrCOT 2 K 17, 24, cf. Dl Par 209–212 Tiele Gesch. 88; this recently disputed, in view of mention with Hamath and other northern cities (2 K 17:24 and especially 18:34), v. Hal ZA ii. 401 ff. Di Is 36:19 Wkl Alttest. Unters. 101 Benz 2 K 17:24 al., who cp. Šabara’in, city conquered by Šalmanašarid IV (Wkl in SchrKB ii. 276); but this by no means certain.

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 (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: Sepharvaim (3); of Sepharvaim (3).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 37:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.13/#tree)

אַיֵּ֤ה מֶֽלֶךְ־חֲמָת֙ וּמֶ֣לֶךְ אַרְפָּ֔ד וּמֶ֖לֶךְ לָעִ֣יר סְפַרְוָ֑יִם הֵנַ֖ע וְעִוָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* where? \[is\].the.king of.Hamath and the.king of.Arpad and the.king of.Lair Sepharvaim Hena and Ivvah

*JPS 1917:* Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'

[2 Kings 19:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.13/#tree)

אַיּ֤וֹ מֶֽלֶךְ־חֲמָת֙ וּמֶ֣לֶךְ אַרְפָּ֔ד וּמֶ֖לֶךְ לָעִ֣יר סְפַרְוָ֑יִם הֵנַ֖ע וְעִוָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* where.\[is\] he? the.king of.Hamath and the.king of.Arpad and the.king of.Lair Sepharvaim Hena and Ivvah

*JPS 1917:* Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5617.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5617/): 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).