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# סֹפֶרֶת

Biblical Hebrew

**Sophereth** — 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

Sophereth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b9_5e4_5b6_5e8_5b6_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֹפֶ֫רֶת: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b9_5e4_5b6_5e8_5b6_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in בְּנֵי־הַסּ׳ Ezr 2:55 a family of returned exiles (𝔊 Ασεφηραθ, A Ασεφοραθ, 𝔊L Ασωφερεθ) = בְּנֵי־ס׳ Ne 7:57 (𝔊 Σαφαραθ(ι), 𝔊L Ασοφερεθ).

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:55](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.55/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.55/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י עַבְדֵ֣י שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה בְּנֵי־סֹטַ֥י בְּנֵי־הַסֹּפֶ֖רֶת בְּנֵ֥י פְרוּדָֽא׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.the.servants of.Solomon the.descendants of.Sotai the.descendants of Hassophereth the.descendants of.Peruda

*JPS 1917:* The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b9_5e4_5b6_5e8_5b6_5ea/): 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).