HebrewH6857Noun

צְפַ֑ת

tse.phat

“Zephath”

1Occurrences

H6857Strong's #

NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Tsephath, a place in Palestine

from H6822 (צָפָה); watch-tower;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)

Zephath = "watch-tower" a Canaanite city in Simeon renamed Hormah by the Israelites Also named: chor.mah (*חׇרְמָה *"Hormah" H2767)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

צְפַ֑ת appears 1 time in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Judges

Key Passages

Judges 1:17BSB

Then the men of Judah went with their brothers the Simeonites, attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and devoted the city to destruction. So it was called Hormah.

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