צְפַת
Tsᵉphath · H6857 · Hebrew · proper noun · 1 occurrence
Place
Meanings
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Zephath
A town in Canaan captured and destroyed by Judah and Simeon and renamed Hormah
ExamplesJudges 1:17 Then Judah went with his brother Simeon, and they struck the Canaanites living in Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. So the name of the city was called Hormah.
How it’s used
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Near synonyms 1 word
- חׇרְמָה Chormâh · H2767 · Hormah
- Hormah is the later name for the same Canaanite city; Judges 1:17 explicitly states 'they called the name of the city Hormah' after the destruction of Zephath, making Hormah a genuine alternate name for the same referent.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of Locations003001010
- צְפַת names Zephath, a Canaanite city Judah and Simeon strike and utterly destroy, renaming it Hormah, in Judges 1:17.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6857. Tsephath צְפַ֑ת proper name, of a location Σεφεκ[π]: Canaanite city Jdg 1:17 =…
צְפַ֑ת proper name, of a location Σεφεκ[π]: Canaanite city Jdg 1:17 = חָרְמָה q. v.; identification by many (see especially PalmerDesert of Exod. 374 ff.) with Sebaita (approximately Latitude 30° 54' north, Longitude 34° 40' east). by RobBR ii. 181 with pass eƒ-‚ªfâh further east; against both see GFM.
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
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
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