Hebrew verb · H5603
סָפַן
saphansaw-fan'
to cover
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çâphan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5603is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5603
to hide by covering; specifically, to roof (passive participle as noun, a roof) or wainscot; figuratively, to reserve
The King James renders it: cieled, cover, seated.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
saphan is rendered "to cover". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 33:21He chose the best land for himself, because a ruler’s portion was reserved for him there. He came with the leaders of the people; he administered the LORD’s justice and His ordinances for Israel.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
He chose the best land for himself, because a ruler’s portion was reserved for him there. He came with the leaders of the people; he administered the LORD’s justice and His ordinances for Israel.”
Deuteronomy 33:21סָפ֑וּן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's six uses are in 1 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and paneled3
- and he covered1
- covered1
- reserved1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְסָפ֣וּן2
- וַיִּסְפֹּ֤ן1
- וְסָפֻ֣ן1
- סָפ֑וּן1
- סְפוּנִ֑ים1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular3HC/Vqsmsa
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural1HVqsmpa
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular1HVqsmsa
Deuteronomy
one use
He chose the best land for himself, because a ruler’s portion was reserved for him there. He came with the leaders of the people; he administered the LORD’s justice and His ordinances for Israel.”
- סָפ֑וּןsafunverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: reserved
1 Kings
three uses
So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
- וַיִּסְפֹּ֤ןvaiyisponHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he covered
The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.
- וְסָפֻ֣ןvesafunconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and paneled
In addition, he built a hall for the throne, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge. It was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.
- וְסָפ֣וּןvesafunconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and paneled
Jeremiah
one use
who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
- וְסָפ֣וּןvesafunconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and paneled
Haggai
one use
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
- סְפוּנִ֑יםsefunimverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: covered
The letters
Gematria 190· 840 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.