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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #6856 - צִפֹּרֶן
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- fingernail, stylus point
- finger-nail
- point (of a diamond)
- Book
- Word
did not use
this Strong's Number
2685) rpy (תספר TsPR) AC: ? CO: Bird AB: Early: The early morning appearance of birds.
V) rpy (תספר TsPR) - Depart early: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) depart - Strongs: H6852 (צָפַר)
Nm) rpy (תספר TsPR) - Bird: [Aramaic only] KJV (4): fowl, bird - Strongs: H6853 (צִפַּר)
bm) ripy (תספיר TsPYR) - Male goat: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (7): he goat - Strongs: H6841 (צְפִיר), H6842 (צָפִיר)
bf1) eripy (תספירה TsPYRH) - Morning: The early morning as the sun rises. KJV (3): morning, diadem - Strongs: H6843 (צְפִירָה)
cf) rfpy (תספור TsPWR) - Bird: KJV (40): bird, fowl, sparrow - Strongs: H6833 (צִפֹּר)
cmm) nrfpy (תספורנ TsPWRN) - Point: The sharp pointed talon of a bird. Also a fingernail or the sharp point of a flint. KJV (2): nail, point - Strongs: H6856 (צִפֹּרֶן)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 finger-nail Deuteronomy 21:12 (compare RS K 178; Semitic i. 407,2nd ed. 428 We Heid. 2. 171).
2 transf., שָׁמִיר׳בְּצ Jeremiah 17:1 with a point of diamond (compare Plin NH 37,4).
V. צפר (√ of following; Aramaic צְפִירָצ, image unavailable = צָפִיר; perhaps compare Arabic 
leap (but 
= 
)).
צִפֹּרֶן m.
(1) the nail of the finger, Deuteronomy 21:12 from the root צָפַר No. II. (Arab. ظُفْرُ; Chald. טְפַר id. To the Hebr. צִפֹּרֶן nearly approaches Greek περονή; Germ. Sporn; Eng. Spur.)
(2) a point (of a nail) of a style (of adamant), Jeremiah 17:1. Comp. Plin. H. N. xxxvii. c. 4. 15.
