סְפַר
çᵉphar · H5609 · Aramaic · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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document, book, letter, list
Written document; made of papyrus or parchment; either as a single sheet or several sheets sewn together and rolled for storage
ExamplesEzra 4:15 so that a search may be conducted in the record books of your fathers. And you will discover in the record books and learn that that city is a rebellious city and detrimental to kings and provinces, and that they have revolted within it in past days; for this reason that city was laid waste.
Ezra 6:18 Then they appointed the priests to their divisions and the Levites in their sections for the service of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.
Daniel 7:10 “A river of fire was flowing And coming out from before Him; Thousands upon thousands were serving Him, And myriads upon myriads were standing before Him; The court convened, And the books were opened.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- דִּכְרוֹןrecord 2
- מֹשֶׁהMoses 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פְּתַחopen 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בַּיִתhouse 1
- כְּתָבprescribing 1
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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In the other Testament 2 words
- βιβλίον biblíon · G975 · scroll, roll, book
- Greek βιβλίον (biblion) serves as the direct translation equivalent of Aramaic סְפַר (sĕpar, 'book, roll'), both denoting a written document or scroll; this is a cross-linguistic equivalent pair between Aramaic and Greek, not a Hebrew synonym.
- סֵפֶר çêpher · H5612 · scroll, book, letter
- סְפַר (çᵉphar, H5609) (Aramaic סְפַר) and סֵפֶר (çêpher, H5612) (Hebrew סֵפֶר) are cognate forms of the same Semitic root denoting written documents, with סְפַר (çᵉphar, H5609) appearing in Aramaic portions of Scripture and סֵפֶר (çêpher, H5612) in Hebrew portions, both referring to books, scrolls, or written records.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Scrolls001003001001014
- Daniel 7:10 recounts Daniel's vision, “thousands upon thousands were serving Him, And myriads upon myriads were standing before Him; The court convened, And the books were opened.”
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5609. sephar סְפַר noun masculineDan 7:10 book (see Biblical Hebrew סֵ֫פֶר); — construct…
סְפַר noun masculineDan 7:10 book (see Biblical Hebrew סֵ֫פֶר); — construct ׳ס דָּכְרָנַיָּא Ezr 4:15 (twice in verse), ׳ס משֶׁה Ezr 6:18; plural absolute סִפְרִין Dan 7:10 books (of records, see Dr); emphatic סִפְרַיָּא בֵּית Ezr 6:1 house of records.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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