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title: זִפְרֹון — Ziphron · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זִפְרֹון (2202), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Ziphron. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זִפְרֹון

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«זִפְרֹון» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ziphron** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2202 · **BDB:** זִפְרֹן

### Glosses

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### Meaning (OSHB)

Ziphron [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2202/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2202/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. only c. ה loc. זִפְרֹ֫נָה Nu 34:9, place on northern boundary of Canaan; 𝔊 Δεφρωνα, Ἐφρωνα; 𝔊L Ζεφρωνα; site dub., WetzstHauran 88 proposes Zifrân, NE. from Damascus; FurrerZPV viii. 28 BdPal 397 (‘perhaps,’) Zaʿferâne, between Ḥumṣ and Hamath; Di rejects both.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זִפְרֹון» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2202/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 34:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.9/)

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וְיָצָ֤א הַגְּבֻל֙ זִפְרֹ֔נָה וְהָי֥וּ תוֹצְאֹתָ֖יו חֲצַ֣ר עֵינָ֑ן חֲצַ֣ר עֵינָ֑ן זֶֽה־יִהְיֶ֥ה לָכֶ֖ם גְּב֥וּל צָפֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.go.out the border to Ziphron and they.will.be extremities its Hazar Enan this it.will.be your border of.\[the\].north

*JPS 1917:* and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out thereof shall be at Hazar-enan; this shall be your north border.

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