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title: סָפַן — cover · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סָפַן (5603), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: cover. BDB 1906: vb. cover, cover in, panel. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סָפַן

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«סָפַן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cover** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 6 times · **Key:** 5603 · **BDB:** סָפַן

### Glosses

\[it.was\].paneled (2); paneled (2); \[was\].reserved (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cover [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5603/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. cover, cover in, panel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5603/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cover, cover in, panel (NH סָפַן is respect, care for; Ph. מספנת roof, Lzb330; Aramaic סְפַן Ithpe. be covered, overlaid; Assyrian sapânu (sometimes šapânu !), cover, overwhelm Dl508; sapannu, concealment, obscurity, depth (of sea); Ethiopic ሰፈነ invalescere, percrebescere, praevalere, Di406);— Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּסְפֹּן אֶת־הַבַּיִת גֵּבִים 1 K 6:9 and he covered in the house with beams (?); Inf. abs. סָפוֹן בָּאָ֑רֶז Je 22:14 (reading with JDMich Hi Gf Or Gie Co, חַלּוֹנָיו סָפוֹן, for MT חַלּוֹנַי וְסָפוּן, cf. DrSm xxx) covering (it) in, panelling (it) with cedar; Pt. pass. סָפוּן בְּאֶרֶז 1 K 7:7, סָפֻן בְּאֶרֶז v 3; pl. בְּבָֽתֵּיכֶם סְפוּנִים Hg 1:4 in your panelled houses.—סָפוּן strangely = reserved, laid up, Dt 33:21, and = hidden v 19 שְׂפֻנֵי טְמֻנֵי חוֹל (only here with שׂ; both in sense of צָפוּן \[read this?

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סָפַן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5603/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Haggai 1:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAG.1.4/)

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הַעֵ֤ת לָכֶם֙ אַתֶּ֔ם לָשֶׁ֖בֶת בְּבָתֵּיכֶ֣ם סְפוּנִ֑ים וְהַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּ֖ה חָרֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* \[does\].a time? \[belong\].to you you to dwell in houses your paneled and the house (the) this \[is\].desolate

*JPS 1917:* 'Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste?

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[1 Kings 6:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.9/)

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וַיִּ֥בֶן אֶת־הַבַּ֖יִת וַיְכַלֵּ֑הוּ וַיִּסְפֹּ֤ן אֶת־הַבַּ֙יִת֙ גֵּבִ֔ים וּשְׂדֵרֹ֖ת בָּאֲרָזִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.built (et) the house and he finished.it and he.paneled (et) the house beams and planks with (the) cedar(s)

*JPS 1917:* So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered in the house with planks of cedar over beams.

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