Hebrew noun (feminine) · H6854
צְפַרְדֵּעַ
tsephardeatsef-ar-day'-ah
frog
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsᵉphardêaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6854is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6854
a marsh-leaper, i.e. frog
The King James renders it: frog.
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
tsephardea is rendered "frog". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 8:2But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
Exodus 8:2בַּֽצְפַרְדְּעִֽים׃
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
- the frogs8
- frogs2
- and frog1
- the frog1
- with the frogs1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| צְפַר | tsephar | bird | Uses4 |
All 13, 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
- הַֽצְפַרְדְּעִ֖ים3
- הַֽצְפַרְדְּעִ֔ים2
- בַּֽצְפַרְדְּעִֽים׃1
- הַצְּפַרְדֵּ֔עַ1
- הַֽצְפַרְדְּעִ֗ים1
- הַֽצֲפַרְדְּעִ֔ים1
- הַֽצְפַרְדְּעִֽים׃1
- וּ֝צְפַרְדֵּ֗עַ1
- צְפַרְדְּעִ֑ים1
- צְפַרְדְּעִים֒1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural8HTd/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HRd/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa
Exodus
eleven uses
But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
- בַּֽצְפַרְדְּעִֽים׃batzfardeimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with the frogs
The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
- צְפַרְדְּעִים֒tzefardeimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: frogs
The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.’”
- הַֽצְפַרְדְּעִֽים׃hatzfardeimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the frogs
And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers and canals and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt.’”
- הַֽצְפַרְדְּעִ֖יםhatzfardeimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the frogs
So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
- הַצְּפַרְדֵּ֔עַhatzefardea'the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the frog
But the magicians did the same thing by their magic arts, and they also brought frogs up onto the land of Egypt.
- הַֽצְפַרְדְּעִ֖יםhatzfardeimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the frogs
Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people. Then I will let your people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD.”
- הַֽצְפַרְדְּעִ֔יםhatzfardeimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the frogs
Moses said to Pharaoh, “You may have the honor over me. When shall I pray for you and your officials and your people that the frogs (except for those in the Nile) may be taken away from you and your houses?”
- הַֽצֲפַרְדְּעִ֔יםhatzafardeimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the frogs
The frogs will depart from you and your houses and your officials and your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”
- הַֽצְפַרְדְּעִ֗יםhatzfardeimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the frogs
After Moses and Aaron had left Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the LORD for help with the frogs that He had brought against Pharaoh.
- הַֽצְפַרְדְּעִ֖יםhatzfardeimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the frogs
And the LORD did as Moses requested, and the frogs in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields died.
- הַֽצְפַרְדְּעִ֔יםhatzfardeimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the frogs
Psalms
two uses
He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
- וּ֝צְפַרְדֵּ֗עַutzefardea'conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and frog
Their land teemed with frogs, even in their royal chambers.
- צְפַרְדְּעִ֑יםtzefardeimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: frogs
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.