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זִיף

Zîyph · H2128 · Hebrew · proper noun · 10 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 places

Person

Meanings

  1. Ziph

    Town; territory of Judah; near border with Edom

    Examples

    Joshua 15:24 Ziph, Telem, and Bealoth,

  2. Ziph

    Town; located in the hill country; territory of Judah

    Examples

    Joshua 15:55 Maon, Carmel, Ziph, and Juttah,

    1 Samuel 23:14 David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul searched for him every day, but God did not hand him over to him.

    1 Samuel 23:15 Now David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life while David was in the wilderness of Ziph, at Horesh.

  3. Ziph

    Man; son of Jehalleleel; tribe of Judah

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 4:16 The sons of Jehallelel were Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Names of Locations003001010
זִיף is the place name Ziph, a town in Judah's hill country listed among the cities of that region's allotment.
Names of People003001007
The same name also identifies a descendant of Judah, and separately a wilderness near the town where David hides from Saul.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2128. Ziph זִיף proper name 1. proper name, of a location a. city south east from…
H2128. Ziph
זִיף proper name
1. proper name, of a location a. city south east from Hebron, Jos 15:55; 1Ch 2:42; 2Ch 11:8, modern Tell Zîf; RobBR i. 492, 498 GuérinJudée iii. 159 ff.: ׳מִדְבַּרזֿ 1Sa 23:14-15, 1Sa 26:2 (twice in verse); with ה locative, זִ֫יפָה 1Sa 23:24.
b. city of southern Judah Jos 15:24, site unknown.
2. proper name, masculine a son of יְהַלֶּלְאֵל of Judah 1Ch 4:16, whether related to
proper name, of a location above does not appear. ᵐ5 Ζαφα, Ζιφ(αι). (1Ch 2:42 see above)

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Names of People1 occurrenceNames of Locations9 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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