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title: רִצְפָּה — Rizpah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רִצְפָּה (7532), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Rizpah. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רִצְפָּה

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«רִצְפָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Rizpah** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 7532 · **BDB:** רִצְפָּה²

### Glosses

Rizpah (2); \[was\].Rizpah (1); of.Rizpah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Rizpah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7532/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7532/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. concubine of Saul, 2 S 3:7; 21:8, 10, 11, Ρεσφα.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רִצְפָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7532/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 21:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.11/)

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וַיֻּגַּ֖ד לְדָוִ֑ד אֵ֧ת אֲשֶׁר־עָשְׂתָ֛ה רִצְפָּ֥ה בַת־אַיָּ֖ה פִּלֶ֥גֶשׁ שָׁאֽוּל׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.told to David (et) \[that\].which she.had.done Rizpah the.daughter of.Aiah the.concubine of.Saul

*JPS 1917:* And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

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[2 Samuel 3:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.7/)

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וּלְשָׁא֣וּל פִּלֶ֔גֶשׁ וּשְׁמָ֖הּ רִצְפָּ֣ה בַת־אַיָּ֑ה וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־אַבְנֵ֔ר מַדּ֥וּעַ בָּ֖אתָה אֶל־פִּילֶ֥גֶשׁ אָבִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and.\[belonged\] to Saul a.concubine and name her \[was\].Rizpah the.daughter of.Aiah and he.said to Abner why? have.you.gone into the.concubine my.father my

*JPS 1917:* Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ish-bosheth said to Abner: 'Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?'

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