Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H6855
צִפֹּרָה
Tsipporahtsip-po-raw'
Zipporah
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Tsippôrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6855is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6855
Tsipporah, Moses' wife
The King James renders it: Zipporah.
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
Tsipporah is rendered "Zipporah". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 2:21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
Exodus 2:21צִפֹּרָ֥ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Zipporah3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| צִפֹּרֶן | tsipporen | fingernail | Uses2 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- צִפֹּרָ֥ה1
- צִפֹּרָ֜ה1
- צִפֹּרָ֖ה1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)3HNpf
Exodus
three uses
Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
- צִפֹּרָ֥הtziporahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zipporah
But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
- צִפֹּרָ֜הtziporahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zipporah
After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,
- צִפֹּרָ֖הtziporahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zipporah
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.