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צִפּוֹר

Tsippôwr · H6834 · Hebrew · proper noun · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Zippor

    A man who was the father of Balak, king of Moab

    Examples

    Numbers 22:2 Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

    Numbers 22:4 Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this horde will eat up all that is around us, as the ox eats up the grass of the field!” And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.

    Numbers 22:10 Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent word to me:

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

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

6 occurrences in 1 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
Birds001001002005
צִפּוֹר (Tsippôwr, H6834) is the personal name "Zippor," the father of Balak king of Moab, as in occurrences glossed "of Zippor." As a proper name it does not independently attest the "Birds" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with צִפּוֹר (tsippôwr, H6833) (the common noun "bird") in the source data and reflects צִפּוֹר (tsippôwr, H6833)'s own attested sense, not this proper name's.
Names of People003001007
צִפּוֹר is the personal name Zippor, the father of Balak, king of Moab, named repeatedly as Balak sends for Balaam in Numbers 22:2, 22:4, 22:10, 22:16, and 23:18.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6834. Tsippor II. צִמּוֺר proper name, masculine father of Balak, king of Moab (bird;…
H6834. Tsippor
II. צִמּוֺר proper name, masculine father of Balak, king of Moab (bird; perhaps specifically sparrow, compare GrayProp. N. 94; Palmyrene proper name, masculine צפרא); — ׳צ Num 22:2, Num 22:4, Num 22:16; Jos 24:9; Jdg 11:25, צִמֹּר Num 22:10; Num 23:18; Σεπφωρ.

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

Sources

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