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# צְפַנְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6846

**Zephaniah** — used 8 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

Zephaniah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6846/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְפַנְיָה(וּ): n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6846/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Σοφονιας (י׳ hath treasured; OHeb. צפניהו, Ph. צפנבעל);— priest, -יָה Je 21:1; 22:25, 29; 52:24 = -יָהוּ 2 K 25:18 (𝔊L Σαφανιας), Je 37:3. Elsewhere -יָה: the prophet Zp 1:1. a Judæan Zc 6:10–14. ancestor of Heman 1 Ch 6:21 (Σαφανιας; = אוּרִיאֵל v 9).

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

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.21/#tree)

בֶּן־אֶלְקָנָה֙ בֶּן־יוֹאֵ֔ל בֶּן־עֲזַרְיָ֖ה בֶּן־צְפַנְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Elkanah the.son of.Joel the.son of.Azariah the.son of.Zephaniah

*JPS 1917:* the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah;

[Jeremiah 29:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.29.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.29.29/#tree)

וַיִּקְרָ֛א צְפַנְיָ֥ה הַכֹּהֵ֖ן אֶת־הַסֵּ֣פֶר הַזֶּ֑ה בְּאָזְנֵ֖י יִרְמְיָ֥הוּ הַנָּבִֽיא׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.read.aloud Zephaniah the priest (et) the letter (the) this in the.ears of.Jeremiah the prophet

*JPS 1917:* And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6846.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6846/): 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).