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Lexicon :: Strong's H6828 - ṣāp̄ôn

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צָפוֹן
Transliteration
ṣāp̄ôn
Pronunciation
tsaw-fone'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1953b

Strong’s Definitions

צָפוֹן tsâphôwn, tsaw-fone'; or צָפֹן tsâphôn; from H6845; properly, hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown):—north(-ern, side, -ward, wind).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 153x

The KJV translates Strong's H6828 in the following manner: north (116x), northward (24x), north side (11x), northern (1x), north wind (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 153x
The KJV translates Strong's H6828 in the following manner: north (116x), northward (24x), north side (11x), northern (1x), north wind (1x).

  1. north (of direction), northward

    1. north

    2. northward

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צָפוֹן tsâphôwn, tsaw-fone'; or צָפֹן tsâphôn; from H6845; properly, hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown):—north(-ern, side, -ward, wind).
STRONGS H6828: Abbreviations
I. צָפוֺן 153 noun feminineIsaiah 43:6 north (as the hidden, dark; compare Thes LewyFremdw. 188 f.; perhaps Phoenician צפל north); — absolute צ׳ Jeremiah 26:26 +, צָפֹ֫נָה northward Genesis 13:14 +, oftener צָפ֫וֺנָה Jeremiah 3:12 +, also צָפ֫וֺנָה = צָפוֺן Jeremiah 1:13 + (after prepositions and stative construct; compare Ges§ 90e); construct מִצְּפוֺן לְ Joshua 8:11 +, also מִצְּפוֺן Joshua 19:14 Gi (compare Benn; van d. H. Baer מִצָּ׳), מִצְּפ֫וֺנָה לְ Judges 21:19; (צ׳ occurs oftenest in Ezekiel [46 times], Joshua [25 times], Jeremiah [25 times], Daniel [9 times]); — north (opposite south, east, west) Genesis 13:14; Genesis 28:14 (both J), Exodus 27:11 (P), +; צ׳ פְּאַת north side Exodus 26:20; Joshua 15:5 + (see פֵּאָה); so צֶלַיע צ׳ Exodus 26:35, רוּחַ הַצּ׳ Ezekiel 42:17, compare עַליֶֿרֶךְ הַמִּזְבֵּחַ צָפ֫וֺנָה 2 Kings 16:14; גְּבוּל צ׳ Numbers 34:7, 9 north boundary; יַתְכְּתֵי צ׳ remote parts of north Isaiah 14:13 (as divine abode), Ezekiel 38:6, 15 + (see [יַרְכָה]); שַׁעַר הַצּ׳ Ezekiel 40:35 +, צ׳ פֶּתַחEzekiel 42:2; רוּחַ צ׳ Ezekiel 25:23 north wind, and so צ׳ alone Songs 4:16; toward the north is צָפ֫וֺנָה Joshua 13:3 —אֶלצָֿפוֺן Ecclesiastes 1:6, אֶלהַֿצּ׳ Ezekiel 42:1, אֶלהַֿצָּפ֫וֺנָה Ezekiel 8:14, לַצָּפוֺן Ezekiel 40:23, דֶּרֶךְ הַצָּפוֺן Ezekiel 40:20, צָפ֫וֺנָה ד׳ Ezekiel 8:5 (twice in verse) +, etc.; especially (in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, etc.) of quarter whence invaders were to come, e. g. Assyrians Isaiah 14:31, compare Zephaniah 2:13, Babylonians Jeremiah 6:1, 22; Jeremiah 15:12; Jeremiah 46:20, 24 (עַםצֿ׳), Jeremiah 47:2, Ezekiel 26:7, Cyrus against Babylonian Isaiah 41:25, compare Jeremiah 50:3, 9, 41; Jeremiah 51:48; more vaguely, Jeremiah 1:14, 15 (מַמְלְכוֺת צ׳), Jeremiah 4:6; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 13:20; Jeremiah 25:9, 26 (מַלְכֵי הַצּ׳); of Gog's host Ezekiel 38:6, 15; Ezekiel 39:2; נְסִיכֵי צ׳ Ezekiel 32:30 (apparently of nearer [Aramaean?] princes); אֶרֶץ צ׳ Jeremiah 31:8 is region of Carchemish, but Zechariah 2:10; Zechariah 6:6, 8 (twice in verse) of Babylon; מֵאֶרֶץ צ׳ (sometimes + other countries) the exiles and dispersed are to return Jeremiah 3:18; Jeremiah 16:15 = Jeremiah 23:8; Jeremiah 31:8, compare Isaiah 43:6; Isaiah 49:12; מֶלֶךְ הַצּ׳ Daniel 11:6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15, 40 denotes successive Seleucidae.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

13:14; 13:14; 28:14

Exodus

26:20; 26:35; 27:11

Numbers

34:7; 34:9

Joshua

8:11; 13:3; 15:5; 19:14

Judges

21:19

2 Kings

16:14

Ecclesiastes

1:6

Song of Songs

4:16

Isaiah

14:13; 14:31; 41:25; 43:6; 43:6; 49:12

Jeremiah

1:13; 1:14; 1:15; 3:12; 3:18; 4:6; 6:1; 6:22; 10:22; 13:20; 15:12; 16:15; 23:8; 25:9; 25:26; 31:8; 31:8; 46:20; 46:24; 47:2; 50:3; 50:9; 50:41; 51:48

Ezekiel

8:5; 8:14; 26:7; 32:30; 38:6; 38:6; 38:15; 38:15; 39:2; 40:20; 40:23; 40:35; 42:1; 42:2; 42:17

Daniel

11:6; 11:7; 11:8; 11:11; 11:13; 11:15; 11:40

Zephaniah

2:13

Zechariah

2:10; 6:6; 6:8

H6828

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Strong's Number H6828 matches the Hebrew צָפוֹן (ṣāp̄ôn),
which occurs 153 times in 141 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 13:14–Job 26:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - And God said to Abram after Lot was separated from him, Look up with thine eyes, and behold from the place where thou now art northward and southward, and eastward and seaward;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - And thy seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:20 - And for the next side, toward the south, twenty posts,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:35 - And thou shalt set the table outside the veil, and the candlestick opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle; and thou shalt put the table on the north side of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:11 - Thus shall there be to the side toward the north curtains of a hundred cubits in length; and their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty of brass, and the rings and the clasps of the pillars, and their sockets overlaid with silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:11 - (LXX 37:9) and on the north side a hundred every way, and on the south side a hundred every way, and their posts twenty and their sockets twenty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:22 - And he put the table in the tabernacle of witness, on the north side without the veil of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:11 - And he shall lay his hand on its head; and they shall kill it by the side of the altar, toward the north before the Lord, and the sons of Aaron the priests shall pour its blood on the altar round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:25 - The order of the camp of Dan shall be northward with their forces; and the prince of the sons of Dan, Achiezer the son of Amisadai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35 - And the head of the house of the families of the division of Merari, was Suriel the son of Abichail: they shall encamp by the side of the tabernacle northwards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:7 - And this shall be your northern border; from the great sea ye shall measure to yourselves, by the side of [fn]the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:9 - And the border shall go out to Dephrona, and its termination shall be at Arsenain; this shall be your border from the north.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - And thou shalt measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and your city shall be in the midst of this, and the suburbs of the cities as described.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:3 - [fn]Ye have compassed this mount long enough; turn therefore toward the north.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:27 - Go up to the top of the [fn]quarried rock, and look with thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes, for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:11 - And all the men of war went up with him, and they went forward and came over against the city eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:2 - and to the kings who were by the great Sidon, to the hill country and to Araba opposite Keneroth, and to the plain, and to Phenaeddor,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:3 - from the [fn]wilderness before Egypt, as far as the borders of Accaron on the left of the Chananites the land is reckoned to the five principalities of the Phylistines, to the inhabitant of Gaza, and of Azotus, and of Ascalon, and of Geth, and of Accaron, and to the Evite;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:5 - And their boundaries eastward are all the salt sea as far as Jordan; and their borders from the north, and from the border of the sea, and from part of Jordan—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:6 - the borders go up to Bæthaglaam, and they go along from the north to Bætharaba, and the borders go on up to the stone of Bæon the son of Ruben.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7 - And the borders continue on to [fn]the fourth part of the valley of Achor, and go down to Galgal, which is before the approach of Adammin, which is southward in the valley, and terminate at the water of the fountain of the sun; and their going forth shall be the fountain of Rogel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 - And the borders go up to the valley of Ennom, behind Jebus southward; this is Jerusalem: and the borders terminate at the top of the mountain, which is before the valley of Ennom toward the sea, which is by the side of the land of Raphain northward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10 - And the border will go round from Baal to the sea, and will go on to the mount of Assar behind the city of Jarin northwards; this is Chaslon: and it will come down to the city of the Sun, and will go on to the south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:11 - And the border terminates behind Accaron northward, and the borders will terminate at Socchoth, and the borders will go on to the south, and will terminate at Lebna, and the issue of the borders will be at the sea; and their borders shall be toward the sea, the great sea shall be the boundary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:6 - And the borders will proceed to the sea to Icasmon north of Therma; they will go round eastward to Thenasa, and Selles, and will pass on eastward to Janoca,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9 - And the borders shall go down to the valley of Carana southward by the valley of Jariel, (there is a turpentine tree belonging to Ephraim between that and the city of Manasse:) and the borders of Manasse are northward to the brook; and the sea shall be its termination.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10 - Southward the land belongs to Ephraim, and northward to Manasse; and the sea shall be their coast; and northward they shall border upon [fn]Aseb, and eastward upon Issachar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:5 - And they [fn]came to him: and he divided to them seven portions, saying, Juda shall stand to them a border southward, and the sons of Joseph shall stand to them northward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:12 - And their borders were northward: the borders shall go up from Jordan behind Jericho northward, and shall go up to the mountain westward, and the issue of it shall be Bæthon of Mabdara.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16 - And the borders shall extend down on one side, this is in front of the forest of Sonnam, which is on the side of Emec Raphain northward, and it shall come down to Gæenna behind Jebusai southward: it shall come down to the fountain of Rogel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:17 - And the borders shall go across to the fountain of Bæthsamys:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:18 - and shall proceed to Galiloth, which is in front by the going up of Æthamin; and they shall come down to the stone of Bæon of the sons of Ruben; and shall pass over behind Bætharaba northward, and shall go down to the borders behind the sea northward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:19 - And the termination of the borders shall be at the creek of the salt sea northward to the side of Jordan southward: these are their southern borders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:14 - And the borders shall come round northward to Amoth, and their going out shall be at Gæphael,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:27 - And it will return [fn]westward from Bæthegeneth, and will join Zabulon and Ekgai, and Phthæel northwards, and the borders will come to Saphthæbæthme, and Inael, and will go on to Chobamasomel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30 - (LXX 24:31) And they buried him by the borders of his inheritance in Thamnasarach in the mount of Ephraim, northward of the mount of Galaad:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:9 - And they buried him in the border of his inheritance, in Thamnathares, in mount Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaas.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 - And Jerobaal rose early, the same is Gedeon, and all the people with him, and encamped at the fountain of Arad; and the camp of Madiam was to the north of him, reaching from Gabaathamorai, in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 - And the men of Ephraim [fn]assembled themselves, and passed on to the north, and said to Jephthae, Wherefore didst thou go over to fight with the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thy house over thee with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19 - And they said, Lo! now there is a feast of the Lord [fn]from year to year in Selom, which is on the north of Bæthel, eastward on the way that goes up from Bæthel to Sychem, and from the south of Lebona.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:5 - The one way was northward to one coming to Machmas, and the other way was southward to one coming to Gabae.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:25 - (LXX 7:13) And there were twelve oxen under the sea; three looking to the north, and three looking to the west, and three looking to the south, and three looking to the east: and all their hinder parts were [fn]inward, and the sea was above upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:14 - And he brought forward the one before the house of the Lord from between the altar and the house of the Lord, and he [fn]set it openly by the [fn]side of the altar northwards.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:24 - The gates were toward the four winds, eastward, westward, northward, southward.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:14 - And the lot of the east gates fell to Selemias, and Zacharias: the sons of Soaz cast lots for Melchias, and the lot came out northward.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:17 - Eastward were six watchmen in the day; northward four by the day; southward four by the day; and two at the Esephim,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:4 - wherein they made them twelve calves,—three looking northwards, and three westwards, and three southwards, and three eastwards: and the sea was upon them above, and their hinder parts were inward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:7 - He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and he upon nothing hangs the earth;

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