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# צֹפַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6691

**Zophar** — used 4 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

Zophar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6691/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צֹפַר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6691/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** and (Jb 2:11) צוֹפַר n.pr.m. Job’s third friend, צ׳ הַנַּעֲמָתִי Jb 2:11; 11:1; 20:1; 42:9; Σωφαρ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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: Zophar (4).

## In the verses

[Job 11:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.1/#tree)

וַ֭יַּעַן צֹפַ֥ר הַֽנַּעֲמָתִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Zophar the Naamathite and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:

[Job 20:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.1/#tree)

וַ֭יַּעַן צֹפַ֥ר הַנַּֽעֲמָתִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Zophar the Naamathite and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6691.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6691/): 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).