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title: צְפוֹנִי — Tsephonite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צְפוֹנִי (6831), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Tsephonite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צְפוֹנִי

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«צְפוֹנִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Tsephonite** — 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:** 6831 · **BDB:** צְפוֹנִי

### Glosses

the.Zephonite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Tsephonite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6831/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6831/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of צְפוֹן (v. foregoing); c. art. as subst. coll. Nu 26:15.—ii. צ׳ v. צפן.

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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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צְפוֹנִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6831/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 26:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.15/)

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בְּנֵ֣י גָד֮ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם֒ לִצְפ֗וֹן מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙ הַצְּפוֹנִ֔י לְחַגִּ֕י מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַֽחַגִּ֑י לְשׁוּנִ֕י מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַשּׁוּנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Gad to clans their of Zephon the.clan of the.Zephonite\[s\] of Haggi the.clan of the.Haggite\[s\] of Shuni the.clan of the.Shunite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;

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