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# סְפָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5611

**Sephar** — 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

Sephar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5611/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סְפָר²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5611/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in S. Arabia;—only c. ה loc. סְפָ֫רָה Gn 10:30, 𝔊 Σωφηρα; usually indentif. with Ṭ̄afâr (ظَفَار pronounced إِصْفَار, إِسْفَار according to Thes), ancient city of Ḥimyarite kings (Ptol. Σαπφαρ μητσόπολις v. SprengerAlte Geogr. Arabic § 301 et pass.), so Thes Tuch Comm. Gen. 2, 212, but dub. GlaserSkizze ii. 437, ס = צ improb. Diad loc. LagBN 61.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.30/#tree)

וַֽיְהִ֥י מוֹשָׁבָ֖ם מִמֵּשָׁ֑א בֹּאֲכָ֥ה סְפָ֖רָה הַ֥ר הַקֶּֽדֶם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was place their.dwelling from Mesha going your towards Sephar the.hill.country of the.east

*JPS 1917:* And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, unto the mountain of the east.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5611.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5611/): 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).