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# צְפוֹנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6831

**Tsephonite** — 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

Tsephonite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6831/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְפוֹנִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6831/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of צְפוֹן (v. foregoing); c. art. as subst. coll. Nu 26:15.—ii. צ׳ v. צפן.

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: the Zephonite\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 26:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.15/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י גָד֮ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם֒ לִצְפ֗וֹן מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙ הַצְּפוֹנִ֔י לְחַגִּ֕י מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַֽחַגִּ֑י לְשׁוּנִ֕י מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַשּׁוּנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Gad to clans their of Zephon the.clan of the.Zephonite\[s\] of Haggi the.clan of the.Haggite\[s\] of Shuni the.clan of the.Shunite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6831/): 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).