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HebrewH6689Proper Noun (Masculine)

צוּף

tsuph

2Occurrences
H6689Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Tsuph or Tsophai or Tsiph, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine

or צוֹפַי; or צִיף; from H6688 (צוּף); honey-comb;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at ; son of: Elkanah (H0511J); father of: Tohu (H8459); also called Zophai at ; § Zuph or Zophai = "honeycomb" 1) a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel 2) a district northwest of Jerusalem where Saul encountered Samuel

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

צוּף appears 2 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
2

Key Passages

1 Samuel 1:1BSB

Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

1 Samuel 9:5BSB

When they reached the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant, “Come, let us go back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and start worrying about us.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.