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# צְפוֹ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6825

**Zephi** — used 3 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

Zephi [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6825/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְפוֹ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6825/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Σωφαρ: in Edom (? gaze, gazing);—צְפוֹ Gn 36:11, 15 + v 43 (ins. prob. after עירם; cf. LagSept. Stud. ii. 10, 1, 178; 37, 1, 270 NesMar. 12) = צְפִי 1 Ch 1:36.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Zepho (2); Zephi (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.11/#tree)

וַיִּהְי֖וּ בְּנֵ֣י אֱלִיפָ֑ז תֵּימָ֣ן אוֹמָ֔ר צְפ֥וֹ וְגַעְתָּ֖ם וּקְנַֽז׃

*Word for word:* and they.were the.sons of.Eliphaz Teman Omar Zepho and Gatam and Kenaz

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

[1 Chronicles 1:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.36/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י אֱלִיפָ֑ז תֵּימָ֤ן וְאוֹמָר֙ צְפִ֣י וְגַעְתָּ֔ם קְנַ֖ז וְתִמְנָ֥ע וַעֲמָלֵֽק׃ס

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Eliphaz \[were\].Teman and Omar Zephi and Gatam Kenaz and Timna and Amalek

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6825.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6825/): 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).