Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6842
צָפִיר
tsaphirtsaw-feer'
male goat
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsâphîyr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6842is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6842
a male goat (as prancing)
The King James renders it: (he) goat.
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
tsaphir is rendered "male goat". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Chronicles 29:21They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 29:21וּצְפִירֵ֨י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's six uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and the he-goat2
- and he-goat of1
- and he-goats of1
- he-goat of1
- he-goats of1
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.
6 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
- וְהַ֨צָּפִ֔יר1
- וְהַצָּפִ֥יר1
- וּצְפִ֥יר1
- וּצְפִירֵ֨י1
- צְפִיר־1
- צְפִירֵ֥י1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Td/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
2 Chronicles
one use
They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
- וּצְפִירֵ֨יutzefireiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and he-goats of
Ezra
one use
Then the exiles who had returned from captivity sacrificed burnt offerings to the God of Israel: 12 bulls for all Israel, 96 rams, 77 lambs, and a sin offering of 12 male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD.
- צְפִירֵ֥יtzefireinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: he-goats of
Daniel
four uses
As I was contemplating all this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between his eyes came out of the west, crossing the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground.
- צְפִיר־tzefir-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: he-goat of
- וְהַ֨צָּפִ֔ירvehatzafirconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the he-goat
Thus the goat became very great, but at the height of his power, his large horn was broken off, and four prominent horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of heaven.
- וּצְפִ֥ירutzefirconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and he-goat of
The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes is the first king.
- וְהַצָּפִ֥ירvehatzafirconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the he-goat
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.