Tsipporah צִפֹּרָה
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| צִפֹּרָה | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | tsipporah |
| Strong's number | H6855 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | name of a woman |
| Gloss | Zipporah |
| Occurrences | 3 in 3 verses |
Tsipporah (Hebrew צִפֹּרָה, Strong's H6855) is a name of a woman in the Old Testament, glossed “Zipporah”. It occurs 3 times.
Definition
A woman living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Exo.2.21;
daughter of: Jethro (H3503);
sister of: Eliasaph (H0460) and Hobab (H2246); married to Moses (H4872);
mother of: Gershom (H1647) and Eliezer (H0461H)
§ Zipporah = "bird"
daughter of Reuel or Jethro, wife of Moses, and mother of Gershom and Eliezer
daughter of: Jethro (H3503);
sister of: Eliasaph (H0460) and Hobab (H2246); married to Moses (H4872);
mother of: Gershom (H1647) and Eliezer (H0461H)
§ Zipporah = "bird"
daughter of Reuel or Jethro, wife of Moses, and mother of Gershom and Eliezer
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | zipporah (3) |
|---|---|
| BSB | zipporah (3) |
Verses
Every verse with Tsipporah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Exodus
- Exodus 2:21And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
- Exodus 4:25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
- Exodus 18:2Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).