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# צִפֹּרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6855

**Zipporah** — 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

Zipporah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6855/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִפֹּרָה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6855/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. wife of Moses (bird);—Ex 2:21; 4:25; 18:2; Σεπφωρα (cf. LagBN 90 Anm.\*).

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 (2 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: Zipporah (3).

## In the verses

[Exodus 18:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.18.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.18.2/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֗ח יִתְרוֹ֙ חֹתֵ֣ן מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֶת־צִפֹּרָ֖ה אֵ֣שֶׁת מֹשֶׁ֑ה אַחַ֖ר שִׁלּוּחֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.had.taken Jethro the.father-in-law of.Moses (et) Zipporah the.wife of.Moses after dismissal(s) her

*JPS 1917:* And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

[Exodus 2:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.2.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.2.21/#tree)

וַיּ֥וֹאֶל מֹשֶׁ֖ה לָשֶׁ֣בֶת אֶת־הָאִ֑ישׁ וַיִּתֵּ֛ן אֶת־צִפֹּרָ֥ה בִתּ֖וֹ לְמֹשֶֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and he.was.willing Moses to dwell with the man and he.gave (et) Zipporah daughter his to Moses

*JPS 1917:* And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6855/): 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).