Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H5609
סְפַר
sepharsef-ar'
scroll
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çᵉphar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5609is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5609
a book
The King James renders it: book, roll.
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
sephar is rendered "scroll". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:15that a search should be made of the record books of your fathers. In these books you will discover and verify that the city is a rebellious city, harmful to kings and provinces, inciting sedition from ancient times. That is why this city was destroyed.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
that a search should be made of the record books of your fathers. In these books you will discover and verify that the city is a rebellious city, harmful to kings and provinces, inciting sedition from ancient times. That is why this city was destroyed.
Ezra 4:15בִּֽסְפַר־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in book of2
- and books1
- book of1
- books the1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| סְפַרְוִי | Sepharvi | Sepharvaim | Uses1 |
All 5, 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
- בִּסְפַ֣ר1
- בִּֽסְפַר־1
- וְסִפְרִ֥ין1
- סְפַ֥ר1
- סִפְרַיָּ֗א1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2AR/Ncbsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1AC/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1ANcbsc
- noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1ANcmpd/Ta
Ezra
four uses
that a search should be made of the record books of your fathers. In these books you will discover and verify that the city is a rebellious city, harmful to kings and provinces, inciting sedition from ancient times. That is why this city was destroyed.
- בִּֽסְפַר־bisfar-preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in book of
- בִּסְפַ֣רbisfarpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in book of
Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.
- סִפְרַיָּ֗אsifraiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: books the
They also appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their groups to the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.
- סְפַ֥רsefarnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: book of
Daniel
one use
A river of fire was flowing, coming out from His presence. Thousands upon thousands attended Him, and myriads upon myriads stood before Him. The court was convened, and the books were opened.
- וְסִפְרִ֥יןvesifrinconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and books
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.