Word

צְפַנְיָה

Tsᵉphanyâh · H6846 · Hebrew · proper noun · 10 occurrences

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This name belongs to 4 people

Meanings

Zephaniah

A man, son of Tahath, of the tribe of Levi and an ancestor of Heman

Examples
1 Chronicles 6:36 the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
Zephaniah

A man, son of Maaseiah, of the tribe of Levi, a priest who was an emissary to Jeremiah from King Zedekiah and was taken captive to Babylon and put to death

Examples
2 Kings 25:18 Then the captain of the bodyguards took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three doorkeepers.
Jeremiah 21:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying,
Jeremiah 29:25 “This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to the priest Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests, saying,
Zephaniah

A man, son of Cushi, a descendant of King Hezekiah, and a prophet

Examples
Zephaniah 1:1 The word of the LORD which came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah:
Zephaniah

A man and the father of Josiah, in the time after the exile

Examples
Zechariah 6:10 “Take an offering from the exiles, from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah; and you shall go the same day and enter the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have arrived from Babylon.
Zechariah 6:14 “Now the crown will become a reminder in the temple of the LORD to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen the son of Zephaniah.

How it’s used In 5 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

7 occurrences in 2 groups

כֹּהֵןpriest 6
בֵּןson 4

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קָרָאto call, to cry out 1

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 2 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 2
שָׁלַחto send, to send away 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

אֵלto, toward 3

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 3

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 1 entry

Names of People003001007: צְפַנְיָה is the personal name Zephaniah, the second priest taken captive at Jerusalem's fall in 2 Kings 25:18, a Levite listed in 1 Chronicles 6:21, and the priest to whom King Zedekiah sends word in Jeremiah 21:1, whom the exiles write to in Jeremiah 29:25, and who reads a letter to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 29:29.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6846. Tsephanyah or Tsephanyahu צְפַנְיָה(וּׅ proper name, masculine Σοφονιας (׳י hath…

H6846. Tsephanyah
or Tsephanyahu צְפַנְיָה(וּׅ proper name, masculine Σοφονιας (׳י hath treasured; Old Hebrew צפניהו, Phoenician צפנבעל); —
1 priest, יָה- Jer 21:1; Jer 22:25, Jer 22:29; Jer 52:24 = יָהוּ- 2Ki 25:18 (ᵐ5L Σαφανιας), Jer 37:3. Elsewhere יָה-:
2 the prophet Zep 1:1.
3 a Judaean Zec 6:10, Zec 6:14.
4 ancestor of Heman 1Ch 6:21 (Σαφανιας; = אוּרִיאֵל v.1Ch 6:9).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People10 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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0