Word Study · Strong's H6855 · Hebrew
צִפֹּרָה
Tsipporah
tsip-po-raw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Tsippôrâh
“Tsipporah, Moses' wife”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Tsipporah, Moses' wife
Rendered in the KJV as
Zipporah.
- 3occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 3 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- צִפֹּרָ֥ה1
- צִפֹּרָ֜ה1
- צִפֹּרָ֖ה1
How it is rendered · 1
- Zipporah3
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- proper noun (a name)3
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- HNpf · 3
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The ledger of occurrences
Exodus3 occurrences
- Exodus 2:21צִפֹּרָ֥הtziporahproper noun (a name)Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.here: Zipporah
- Exodus 4:25צִפֹּרָ֜הtziporahproper noun (a name)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.here: Zipporah
- Exodus 18:2צִפֹּרָ֖הtziporahproper noun (a name)After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,here: Zipporah