HebrewH6855Proper Noun (Feminine)
צִפֹּרָה
tsip.po.rah
“Zipporah”
3Occurrences
H6855Strong's #
Proper Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
Tsipporah, Moses' wife
feminine of H6833 (צִפּוֹר); bird;
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A woman living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at ; daughter of: Jethro (H3503); sister of: Eliasaph (H0460) and Hobab (H2246); married to Moses (H4872); mother of: Gershom (H1647) and Eliezer (H0461H) § Zipporah = "bird" daughter of Reuel or Jethro, wife of Moses, and mother of Gershom and Eliezer
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Proper Noun (Feminine)
Morphology Code
N:N-F-P
Full Description
Proper Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
צִפֹּרָה appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Exodus
3
Key Passages
Exodus 18:2BSB
After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,
Exodus 2:21BSB
Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
Exodus 4:25BSB
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.
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