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# רִצְפָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7532

**Rizpah** — 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

Rizpah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7532/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִצְפָּה²: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7532/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. concubine of Saul, 2 S 3:7; 21:8, 10, 11, Ρεσφα.

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 (3 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: Rizpah (2); \[was\] Rizpah (1); of Rizpah (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 21:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.11/#tree)

וַיֻּגַּ֖ד לְדָוִ֑ד אֵ֧ת אֲשֶׁר־עָשְׂתָ֛ה רִצְפָּ֥ה בַת־אַיָּ֖ה פִּלֶ֥גֶשׁ שָׁאֽוּל׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.told to David (et) \[that\].which she.had.done Rizpah the.daughter of.Aiah the.concubine of.Saul

*JPS 1917:* And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

[2 Samuel 3:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.7/#tree)

וּלְשָׁא֣וּל פִּלֶ֔גֶשׁ וּשְׁמָ֖הּ רִצְפָּ֣ה בַת־אַיָּ֑ה וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־אַבְנֵ֔ר מַדּ֥וּעַ בָּ֖אתָה אֶל־פִּילֶ֥גֶשׁ אָבִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and.\[belonged\] to Saul a.concubine and name her \[was\].Rizpah the.daughter of.Aiah and he.said to Abner why? have.you.gone into the.concubine my.father my

*JPS 1917:* Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ish-bosheth said to Abner: 'Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7532.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7532/): 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).