Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H6717
צִיבָא
Tsibatsee-baw'
Ziba
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Tsîybâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6717is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6717
Tsiba, an Israelite
The King James renders it: Ziba.
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
Tsiba is rendered "Ziba". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Sixteen of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 9:2And there was a servant of Saul’s family named Ziba. They summoned him to David, and the king inquired, “Are you Ziba?” “I am your servant,” he replied.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
And there was a servant of Saul’s family named Ziba. They summoned him to David, and the king inquired, “Are you Ziba?” “I am your servant,” he replied.
2 Samuel 9:2צִיבָ֔א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Sixteen of the word's sixteen uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Ziba12
- and Ziba2
- and to Ziba1
- to Ziba1
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 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- צִיבָא֙4
- צִיבָ֔א2
- צִיבָ֖א2
- צִיבָ֛א2
- וּלְצִיבָ֗א1
- וְצִיבָ֗א1
- וְצִיבָ֔א1
- לְצִבָ֔א1
- צִ֠יבָא1
- צִיבָ֜א1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)12HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2HC/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npm
2 Samuel
sixteen uses
And there was a servant of Saul’s family named Ziba. They summoned him to David, and the king inquired, “Are you Ziba?” “I am your servant,” he replied.
- צִיבָ֔אtziva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ziba
- צִיבָ֖אtziva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ziba
So the king asked, “Is there anyone left of Saul’s family to whom I can show the kindness of God?” Ziba answered, “There is still Jonathan’s son, who is lame in both feet.”
- צִיבָא֙tziva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ziba
“Where is he?” replied the king. And Ziba said, “Indeed, he is in Lo-debar at the house of Machir son of Ammiel.”
- צִיבָא֙tziva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ziba
Then the king summoned Saul’s servant Ziba and said to him, “I have given to your master’s grandson all that belonged to Saul and to all his house.
- צִיבָ֛אtziva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ziba
You and your sons and servants are to work the ground for him and bring in the harvest, so that your master’s grandson may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, is always to eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
- וּלְצִיבָ֗אuletziva'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Ziba
And Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do all that my lord the king has commanded.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table like one of the king’s own sons.
- צִיבָא֙tziva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ziba
And Mephibosheth had a young son named Mica, and all who dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants of Mephibosheth.
- צִיבָ֔אtziva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ziba
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
- צִיבָ֛אtziva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ziba
“Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”
- צִיבָ֖אtziva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ziba
- צִ֠יבָאtziva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ziba
“Where is your master’s grandson?” asked the king. And Ziba answered, “Indeed, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he has said, ‘Today, the house of Israel will restore to me the kingdom of my grandfather.’”
- צִיבָ֜אtziva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ziba
So the king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I humbly bow before you,” said Ziba. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king!”
- לְצִבָ֔אletziva'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Ziba
- צִיבָא֙tziva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ziba
along with a thousand men of Benjamin, as well as Ziba the steward of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed down to the Jordan before the king
- וְצִיבָ֗אvetziva'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Ziba
The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”
- וְצִיבָ֔אvetziva'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Ziba
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.