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Tsipporah: Zipporah

Original Word: צִפֹּרָה
Part of Speech: Proper Name Feminine
Transliteration: Tsipporah
Pronunciation: tsip-PO-rah
Phonetic Spelling: (tsip-po-raw')
KJV: Zipporah
NASB: Zipporah
Word Origin: [feminine of H6833 (צִּפּוֹר צִּפּוֹר - bird)]

1. bird
2. Tsipporah, Moses' wife

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Zipporah

Feminine of tsippowr; bird; Tsipporah, Moses' wife -- Zipporah.

see HEBREW tsippowr

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from the same as tsippor
Definition
"bird," Moses' wife
NASB Translation
Zipporah (3).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
צִמֹּרָה proper name, feminine wife of Moses (bird); — Exodus 2:21; Exodus 4:25; Exodus 18:2; Σεπφωρα (compare LagBN 90 Anm.*).

III. צפר (√ of following; compare Arabic plait, braid, Ethiopic id.; Late Hebrew צְפִירָהֵ = rim of basket).

Forms and Transliterations
צִפֹּרָ֖ה צִפֹּרָ֜ה צִפֹּרָ֥ה צפרה ṣip·pō·rāh ṣippōrāh tzippoRah
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Englishman's Concordance
Exodus 2:21
HEB: וַיִּתֵּ֛ן אֶת־ צִפֹּרָ֥ה בִתּ֖וֹ לְמֹשֶֽׁה׃
NAS: his daughter Zipporah to Moses.
KJV: Moses Zipporah his daughter.
INT: the man gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses

Exodus 4:25
HEB: וַתִּקַּ֨ח צִפֹּרָ֜ה צֹ֗ר וַתִּכְרֹת֙
NAS: Then Zipporah took a flint
KJV: Then Zipporah took a sharp stone,
INT: took Zipporah A flint and cut

Exodus 18:2
HEB: מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֶת־ צִפֹּרָ֖ה אֵ֣שֶׁת מֹשֶׁ֑ה
NAS: wife Zipporah, after
KJV: took Zipporah, Moses'
INT: law Moses' Zipporah wife Moses'

3 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 6855
3 Occurrences

ṣip·pō·rāh — 3 Occ.

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