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title: סְפָר — Sephar · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סְפָר (5611), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Sephar. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סְפָר

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«סְפָר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Sephar** — 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:** 5611 · **BDB:** סְפָר²

### Glosses

towards (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Sephar [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5611/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5611/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in S. Arabia;—only c. ה loc. סְפָ֫רָה Gn 10:30, 𝔊 Σωφηρα; usually indentif. with Ṭ̄afâr (ظَفَار pronounced إِصْفَار, إِسْفَار according to Thes), ancient city of Ḥimyarite kings (Ptol. Σαπφαρ μητσόπολις v. SprengerAlte Geogr. Arabic § 301 et pass.), so Thes Tuch Comm. Gen. 2, 212, but dub. GlaserSkizze ii. 437, ס = צ improb. Diad loc. LagBN 61.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סְפָר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5611/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 10:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.30/)

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וַֽיְהִ֥י מוֹשָׁבָ֖ם מִמֵּשָׁ֑א בֹּאֲכָ֥ה סְפָ֖רָה הַ֥ר הַקֶּֽדֶם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was place their.dwelling from Mesha going your towards Sephar the.hill.country of the.east

*JPS 1917:* And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, unto the mountain of the east.

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