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# סֹפֶרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5618

**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/1505/5618/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֹפֶ֫רֶת: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5618/#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, 0 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: of Sophereth (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 7:57](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.57/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.57/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י עַבְדֵ֣י שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה בְּנֵי־סוֹטַ֥י בְּנֵי־סוֹפֶ֖רֶת בְּנֵ֥י פְרִידָֽא׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.the.servants of.Solomon the.descendants of.Sotai the.descendants of.Sophereth the.descendants of.Perida

*JPS 1917:* The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5618.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5618/): 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).