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Strong's #2128 - זִיף

Transliteration
Zîyph
Phonetics
zeef
Origin
from the same as (H2203)
Parts of Speech
N/A
TWOT
None
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Ziph = “battlement”

1) a son of Jehaleleel, a descendant of Judah, and brother of Ziphah (noun proper masculine)

2) a city in southern Judah, between Ithnan and Telem; site unknown (noun proper locative)

3) a city of Judah, southeast of Hebron, between Carmel and Juttah in the highland district (noun proper locative)

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (10)
Joshua 2
1 Samuel 5
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 1
NAS (10)
Joshua 2
1 Samuel 5
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 1
HCS (10)
Joshua 2
1 Samuel 5
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 1
BSB (10)
Joshua 2
1 Samuel 5
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 1
ESV (10)
Joshua 2
1 Samuel 5
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 1
WEB (10)
Joshua 2
1 Samuel 5
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 1
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 זִיף proper name

1. proper name, of a location a. city south east from Hebron, Joshua 15:55; 1 Chronicles 2:42; 2 Chronicles 11:8, modern Tell Zîf; Rob BR i. 492,498 Guérin Judée iii. 159 ff.: ׳מִדְבַּרזֿ 1 Samuel 23:14,15; 1 Samuel 26:2 (twice in verse); with ה locative, זִ֫יפָה 1 Samuel 23:24.

b. city of southern Judah Joshua 15:24, site unknown.

2. proper name, masculine a son ofיְהַלֶּלְאֵל of Judah 1 Chronicles 4:16, whether related to

proper name, of a location above does not appear. ᵐ5 Ζαφα, Ζιφ(αι). ( 1 Chronicles 2:42 see above)


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Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

זִיף (“borrowed,” [“flowing”], from the root זוּף), [Ziph], pr.name

(1) of a town situate in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:55; 2 Chronicles 11:8 in the neighbourhood of which was a desert of the same name, 1 Samuel 23:14, 15 1 Samuel 23:15. Hence the Gentile noun זַיפִי 1 Samuel 23:19, 26:1. [Now زيف Rob. ii. 191.]

(2) of a man, 1 Chronicles 4:16.


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List of Word Forms
וָזִ֥יף וזיף זִ֑יף זִ֔יף זִ֖יף זִ֖יפָה זִ֣יף זִ֥יף זִֽיף׃ זיף זיף׃ זיפה vaZif wā·zîp̄ wāzîp̄ zî·p̄āh zif Zifah zîp̄ zîp̄āh
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