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# צִפּוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6834

**Zippor** — used 7 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

Zippor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6834/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִפּוֹר²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6834/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. father of Balak, king of Moab (bird; perhaps specif. sparrow, cf. GrayProp. N. 94; Palm. n.pr.m. צפרא);—צ׳ Nu 22:2, 4, 16; Jos 24:9; Ju 11:25, צִפֹּר Nu 22:10; 23:18; Σεπφωρ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Zippor (7).

## In the verses

[Numbers 22:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.2/#tree)

וַיַּ֥רְא בָּלָ֖ק בֶּן־צִפּ֑וֹר אֵ֛ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֥ה יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לָֽאֱמֹרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.saw Balak the.son of.Zippor (et) all that it.had.done Israel to the Amorite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

[Numbers 22:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.10/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר בִּלְעָ֖ם אֶל־הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים בָּלָ֧ק בֶּן־צִפֹּ֛ר מֶ֥לֶךְ מוֹאָ֖ב שָׁלַ֥ח אֵלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Balaam to (the) God Balak the.son of.Zippor the.king of.Moab he.sent to me

*JPS 1917:* And Balaam said unto God: 'Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me saying:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6834.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6834/): 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).