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# צְפַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6857

**Zephath** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Zephath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6857/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צְפַ֑ת: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6857/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Σεφεκ\[ρ\]: Canaanite city Ju 1:17 = חָרְמָה q.v.; identif. by many (v. especially Palmer Desert of Exod. 374 ff.) with Sebaita (c. Lat. 30° 54ˊ N., Long. 34° 40ˊ E.), by RobBR ii. 181 with pass eṣ-Ṣŭfâh, further E.; against both v. GFM

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Judges 1:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.17/#tree)

וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ יְהוּדָה֙ אֶת־שִׁמְע֣וֹן אָחִ֔יו וַיַּכּ֕וּ אֶת־הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י יוֹשֵׁ֣ב צְפַ֑ת וַיַּחֲרִ֣ימוּ אוֹתָ֔הּ וַיִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שֵׁם־הָעִ֖יר חָרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.went Judah with Simeon brother his and they.attacked (et) the Canaanite\[s\] \[who.was\].dwelling Zephath and they.totally.destroyed it and he.called (et) the.name of the.city Hormah

*JPS 1917:* And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6857.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6857/): 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).