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Lexicon :: Strong's H5612 - sēp̄er

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סֵפֶר
Transliteration
sēp̄er
Pronunciation
say'-fer
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1540a,1540b

Strong’s Definitions

סֵפֶר çêpher, say'-fer; or (feminine) סִפְרָה çiphrâh; (Psalm 56:8 (H9)), from H5608; properly, writing (the art or a document); by implication, a book:—bill, book, evidence, × learn(-ed) (-ing), letter, register, scroll.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 184x

The KJV translates Strong's H5612 in the following manner: book (138x), letter (29x), evidence (8x), bill (4x), learning (2x), register (1x), learned (with H3045) (1x), scroll (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 184x
The KJV translates Strong's H5612 in the following manner: book (138x), letter (29x), evidence (8x), bill (4x), learning (2x), register (1x), learned (with H3045) (1x), scroll (1x).
feminine noun
  1. book

    masculine noun
  2. missive, document, writing, book

    1. missive

      1. letter (of instruction), written order, commission, request, written decree

    2. legal document, certificate of divorce, deed of purchase, indictment, sign

    3. book, scroll

      1. book of prophecies

      2. genealogical register

      3. law-book

      4. book (of poems)

      5. book (of kings)

      6. books of the canon, scripture

      7. record book (of God)

    4. book-learning, writing

      1. be able to read (after verb 'to know')

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סֵפֶר çêpher, say'-fer; or (feminine) סִפְרָה çiphrâh; (Psalm 56:8 (H9)), from H5608; properly, writing (the art or a document); by implication, a book:—bill, book, evidence, × learn(-ed) (-ing), letter, register, scroll.
STRONGS H5612: Abbreviations
סֵ֫פֶר 185 noun masculineIsaiah 29:11 missive, document, writing, book (probably ancient loan-word from Assyrian šipru, missive, message DlHWB 683, Tel Amarna šipru, šipirtu, id. WklTA Gloss; √ šâpâru, send, send message or letter DlHWB 683, Wkll.c., whence also sâpiru, writer, and (perhaps) ruler, šapirûtu, rule; see HomAufsätze (1892), 34 BuhlLex 13; perhaps compare Arabic bdb070701 go forth to journey, II. send on a journey Lane1370; Late Hebrew סֵפֶר = Biblical Hebrew; so Aramaic סִיפְרָא bdb070702; Christian-Palestinian Aramaic bdb070703 SchwIdioticon 64; Arabic bdb070704); — ס׳ absolute 2 Samuel 11:14 +; construct Exodus 24:7 +; suffix סִפְרִי Exodus 32:33, סִפְרְךָ Exodus 32:33; Psalm 139:16; plural סְפָרִים 1 Kings 21:8 +; —
† 1. missive:
a. letter of instruction, written order, commission, or request, usually from king, 2 Samuel 11:14, 15; 1 Kings 21:8 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 21:9, 11; 2 Kings 5:5, 6 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 5:7; 2 Kings 10:1, 2, 6, 7; 2 Kings 19:14 = Isaiah 37:14 compare 2 Chronicles 32:17; 2 Kings 20:12 = Isaiah 39:1; = written decree for publication Esther 1:22; Esther 3:13; Esther 8:5; Esther 9:20, 25, 30 (= אִגֶּרֶת Esther 9:25; Esther 9:29, see above), compare וַיִּשְׁלַח סְפָרִים בְּיִד הָרָצִים בַּסּוּסִים רֹכְבֵי הָרֶכֶשׁ Esther 8:10. — [כָּתַב ס׳ 2 Samuel 11:15; 1 Kings 21:8; 2 Kings 10:1, 6; 2 Chronicles 32:17; כָּתַב בַּסּ׳ (of specific contents) 2 Samuel 11:15; 1 Kings 21:9, 11; קָרָא אֶתהַֿסּ׳ 2 Kings 5:7 read the letter]. —
b. from prophet Jeremiah 29:1, other influential persons Jeremiah 29:25; Jeremiah 29:29†.
† 2. legal document, כְּרִיתֻת ס׳ certificate of divorce Deuteronomy 24:1, 3and (figurative) Jeremiah 3:8; Isaiah 50:1; הַמִּקְנָה ס׳ deed of purchase Jeremiah 32:11, 12 (strike out article), Jeremiah 32:12; Jeremiah 32:14; Jeremiah 32:16, compare בַּסּ׳ Jeremiah 32:10, הַסְּפָרִים Jeremiah 32:14 (si vera lectio; strike out Greek Version of the LXX Gie compare Gf), סֵפֶר Jeremiah 32:16b; Jeremiah 32:44; ס׳ = indictment Job 31:35 (object of כָּתַב; כָּתַב בְּ׳ = sign Jeremiah 32:10, 12, 44).
3. book, or scroll, in which something is written to preserve it for future use Exodus 17:14 (E), Joshua 18:9 (JE), 1 Samuel 10:25; Isaiah 30:8; Job 19:23 +; in form of roll, compare וְנָגֹ֫לוּ כַּסֵּפֶר הַשָּׁמַיִם Isaiah 34:4, הֶחָתוּם הַסּ׳ Isaiah 29:11, 12 (see Jeremiah 36, etc., below); particular:
a. book of prophecies Jeremiah 25:13; Jeremiah 30:2 + 6 times Jeremiah 36; Daniel 12:4; חֲזוֺן נַחוּם ס׳ Nahum 1:1; סֵפֶר י׳ Isaiah 34:4; so מְגִלַּת סֵפֶר Jeremiah 36:2, 4 (= מְגִלָּה Jeremiah 36:6 + 6 times; with many columns, דְּלָתוֺת Jeremiah 36:23), Ezekiel 2:9, compare Psalm 40:8.
b. geneal. register, ס׳ תּוֺלְדוֺת Genesis 5:1 (P), הַיַּ֫חַשׂ ס׳ Nehemiah 7:5.
c. law-book, הַבְּרִית ס׳ Exodus 24:7 (E), 2 Kings 23:2 2 Chronicles 34:30; 2 Kings 23:21; † הַתּוֺרָה ס׳ Deuteronomy 28:61; Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 30:10; Deuteronomy 31:26; Joshua 1:8; Joshua 8:34 (all D), 2 Kings 22:8 2 Chronicles 34:15; 2 Kings 22:11; Nehemiah 8:3; † תּוֺרַת אֱלֹהִים ס׳ Joshua 24:26 (E), Nehemiah 8:8 (reading תּוֺרַת ס׳, so Greek Version of the LXX, compare TalmudNedarim37b), Nehemiah 8:18; Nehemiah 9:3; † תּוֺרַת י׳ ס׳ 2 Chronicles 17:9; 34:14; תּוֺרַת משֶׁה ס׳ Joshua 8:31; Joshua 23:6 (both D), 2 Kings 14:6; Nehemiah 8:1; משֶׁה ס׳ 2 Chronicles 25:4; 35:12; Nehemiah 13:1.
d. book of poems, מִלְחֲמֹת י׳ ס׳ Numbers 21:14 (JE), הַיָּשָׁר ס׳ Joshua 10:13 (JE), 2 Samuel 1:18.
e. book concerned with kings, דֵּבְרֵי שְׁלֹמֹה ס׳ 1 Kings 11:41, and especially דּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים לְמַלְכֵי וגו׳ ס׳ 1 Kings 14:19, 29 + 31 times Kings (18 times of Israel, + 15 times of Judah), compare Esther 10:2 (of Media and Persia); also דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים לַמֶּלֶךְ ס׳ דָּוִיד 1 Chronicles 27:24 (reading ס׳ for מִסְפָּר, Greek Version of the LXX KitHpt); הַמְּלָכִים לִיהוּדָה וְיִשְׂרָאֵל ס׳ 2 Chronicles 16:11; מַלְכֵי ס׳ יְהוּדָה וְיִשׁ׳ 2 Chronicles 25:26; 28:26; 32:32; וִיהוּדָה יִשׂ׳ מ׳ ס׳ 2 Chronicles 27:7; 35:27; 36:8; יִשׂ׳ מ׳ ס׳ 1 Chronicles 9:1; 2 Chronicles 20:34; הָמְּלָכִים מִדְרַשׁ ס׳ 2 Chronicles 24:27; also דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ס׳ Nehemiah 12:23; Esther 2:23; הַזִּכְרֹנוֺת דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ס׳ Esther 6:1.
f. once בַּסְּפָרִים Daniel 9:2 by means of the Scriptures (canonical books) compare Ew Meinh Bev MartiKau.
g. God's record-book, Psalm 139:16, זִכָּרוֺן ס׳ Malachi 3:16; God's register of living, Exodus 32:32, 33 (E), חַיִּים ס׳ Psalm 69:29; הַסּ׳ Daniel 12:1 (citizens of Messianic kingdom).
4. ס׳ = book-learning, especially writing: יָדַע (הַ) סֵּפֶר Isaiah 29:11, 12 (twice in verse) (of abilityto read); so לְלַמְּדָם סֵפֶר וּלְשׁוֺן כַּשְׂדִּים Daniel 1:4 to teach them the writing and speech of the Chaldeans (on construction see Ges§ 128 a); more generally וְחָכְמָה הַשְׂכִּיל בְּכָלסֿ׳ Daniel 1:17. — [סֵפֶר book is joined with verbs thus: it is written (יִכָּפֶב) Malachi 3:16; a thing is written בַּסּ׳ Exodus 17:14 + 20 times, עַלסֿ׳ 2 Samuel 1:18 + 50 times (+ Jeremiah 36:32; בַדְּיוֺ with ink Jeremiah 36:18), אֶלסֿ׳ Jeremiah 30:2; Jeremiah 51:60; conversely דָּרַשׁ מֵעַל ס׳ Isaiah 34:16, שָׁמַע מֵעַל ס׳ Jeremiah 36:11; see also וְיֻחָ֑קוּ בַּסּ׳ Job 19:23 inscribe in a book, חֻקָּהּ עָלסֿ׳ Isaiah 30:8 (|| כָּתְבָהּ עַללֿוּחַ); מָחָה מִסּ׳ blot out of a book Exodus 32:32, 33; Psalm 69:29; קָרָא אֶתהַֿסּ׳ Jeremiah 51:63 read the book, scroll, but usually † קָרָא בְס׳ Jeremiah 36:8, 10, 13; Nehemiah 8:8; Nehemiah 8:18; Nehemiah 9:3; Nehemiah 13:1]. — ס׳ in קִרְיַת ס׳, see ק׳

† [סִפְרָה] noun feminine book; — suffix הֲלאֹ בְּסִפְרָתֶ֑ךָ Psalm 56:9 (compare סֵפֶר 3g); strike out as gloss Bi Che Hup-Now Du. — compare also H5615 [סְפֹרָה]

See related Aramaic BDB entry H5609.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

5:1

Exodus

17:14; 17:14; 24:7; 24:7; 32:32; 32:32; 32:33; 32:33; 32:33; 32:33

Numbers

21:14

Deuteronomy

24:1; 24:3; 28:61; 29:20; 30:10; 31:26

Joshua

1:8; 8:31; 8:34; 10:13; 18:9; 23:6; 24:26

1 Samuel

10:25

2 Samuel

1:18; 1:18; 11:14; 11:14; 11:15; 11:15; 11:15

1 Kings

11:41; 14:19; 14:29; 21:8; 21:8; 21:8; 21:9; 21:9; 21:11; 21:11

2 Kings

5:5; 5:6; 5:7; 5:7; 10:1; 10:1; 10:2; 10:6; 10:6; 10:7; 14:6; 19:14; 20:12; 22:8; 22:11; 23:2; 23:21

1 Chronicles

9:1; 27:24

2 Chronicles

16:11; 17:9; 20:34; 24:27; 25:4; 25:26; 27:7; 28:26; 32:17; 32:17; 32:32; 34:14; 34:15; 34:30; 35:12; 35:27; 36:8

Nehemiah

7:5; 8:1; 8:3; 8:8; 8:8; 8:18; 8:18; 9:3; 9:3; 12:23; 13:1; 13:1

Esther

1:22; 2:23; 3:13; 6:1; 8:5; 8:10; 9:20; 9:25; 9:25; 9:29; 9:30; 10:2

Job

19:23; 19:23; 31:35

Psalms

40:8; 56:9; 69:29; 69:29; 139:16; 139:16

Isaiah

29:11; 29:11; 29:11; 29:12; 29:12; 30:8; 30:8; 34:4; 34:4; 34:16; 37:14; 39:1; 50:1

Jeremiah

3:8; 25:13; 29:1; 29:25; 29:29; 30:2; 30:2; 32:10; 32:10; 32:11; 32:12; 32:12; 32:12; 32:14; 32:14; 32:16; 32:16; 32:44; 32:44; 36; 36; 36:2; 36:4; 36:6; 36:8; 36:10; 36:11; 36:13; 36:18; 36:23; 36:32; 51:60; 51:63

Ezekiel

2:9

Daniel

1:4; 1:17; 9:2; 12:1; 12:4

Nahum

1:1

Malachi

3:16; 3:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5612 matches the Hebrew סֵפֶר (sēp̄er),
which occurs 186 times in 174 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 4 (2Ch 34:21–Jer 32:10)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:21 - “Go, inquire of the LORD for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book H5612 which has been found; for great is the wrath of the LORD which is poured out on us because our fathers have not observed the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book.” H5612
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:24 - thus says the LORD, “Behold, I am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the curses written in the book H5612 which they have read in the presence of the king of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:30 - The king went up to the house of the LORD and all the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the Levites and all the people, from the greatest to the least; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book H5612 of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:31 - Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant written in this book. H5612
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:12 - Then they removed the burnt offerings that they might give them to the sections of the fathers’ households of the lay people to present to the LORD, as it is written in the book H5612 of Moses. They did this also with the bulls.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:27 - and his acts, first to last, behold, they are written in the Book H5612 of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:8 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and [fn]the abominations which he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book H5612 of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:5 - Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogies. Then I found the book H5612 of the genealogy of those who came up first [fn]in which I found the following record:
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:1 - And all the people gathered as one man at the square which was in front of the Water Gate, and they [fn]asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book H5612 of the law of Moses which the LORD had [fn]given to Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3 - He read from it before the square which was in front of the Water Gate from [fn]early morning until midday, in the presence of men and women, those who could understand; and all the people were attentive to the book H5612 of the law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:5 - Ezra opened the book H5612 in the sight of all the people for he was standing above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood up.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:8 - They read from the book, H5612 from the law of God, [fn]translating to give the sense so that they understood the reading.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:18 - He read from the book H5612 of the law of God daily, from the first day to the last day. And they celebrated the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly according to the ordinance.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:3 - While they stood in their place, they read from the book H5612 of the law of the LORD their God for a fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the LORD their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:23 - The sons of Levi, the heads of fathers’ households, were registered in the Book H5612 of the Chronicles up to the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:1 - On that day they read aloud from the book H5612 of Moses in the hearing of the people; and there was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:22 - So he sent letters H5612 to all the king’s provinces, to each province according to its script and to every people according to their language, that every man should be the master in his own house and the one who speaks in the language of his own people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:23 - Now when the plot was investigated and found to be so, they were both hanged on a [fn]gallows; and it was written in the Book H5612 of the Chronicles in the king’s presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13 - Letters H5612 were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces to destroy, to kill and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to seize their possessions as plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:1 - During that night [fn]the king could not sleep so he gave an order to bring the book H5612 of records, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:5 - Then she said, “If it pleases the king and if I have found favor before him and the matter seems proper to the king and I am pleasing in his sight, let it be written to revoke the letters H5612 devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:10 - He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s signet ring, and sent letters H5612 by couriers on horses, riding on steeds sired by the royal stud.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:20 - Then Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters H5612 to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:25 - But when it came [fn]to the king’s attention, he commanded by letter H5612 that his wicked scheme which he had [fn]devised against the Jews, should return on his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the [fn]gallows.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:30 - He sent letters H5612 to all the Jews, to the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, namely, words of peace and truth,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:32 - The command of Esther established these [fn]customs for Purim, and it was written in the book. H5612
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 10:2 - And all the [fn]accomplishments of his authority and strength, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai to which the king [fn]advanced him, are they not written in the Book H5612 of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:23 - “Oh that my words were written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book! H5612
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:35 - “Oh that I had one to hear me!
Behold, here is my [fn]signature;
Let the Almighty answer me!
And the indictment H5612 which my adversary has written,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:7 - Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book H5612 it is [fn]written of me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:8 - You have taken account of my wanderings;
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your book? H5612
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:28 - May they be blotted out of the book H5612 of life
And may they not be [fn]recorded with the righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:16 - Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book H5612 were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:12 - But beyond this, my son, be warned: the [fn]writing of many books H5612 is endless, and excessive devotion to books is wearying to the body.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:11 - The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed [fn]book, H5612 which when they give it to the one who [fn]is literate, H5612 saying, “Please read this,” he will say, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:12 - Then the [fn]book H5612 will be given to the one who [fn]is illiterate, H5612 saying, “Please read this.” And he will say, “I [fn]cannot read.” H5612
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:18 - On that day the deaf will hear words of a book, H5612
And out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:8 - Now go, write it on a tablet before them
And inscribe it on a scroll, H5612
That it may [fn]serve in the time to come
[fn]As a witness forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:4 - And all the host of heaven will [fn]wear away,
And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll; H5612
All their hosts will also wither away
As a leaf withers from the vine,
Or as one withers from the fig tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:16 - Seek from the book H5612 of the LORD, and read:
Not one of these will be missing;
None will lack its mate.
For [fn]His mouth has commanded,
And His Spirit has gathered them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:14 - Then Hezekiah took the [fn]letter H5612 from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of the LORD and [fn]spread it out before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:1 - At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters H5612 and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:1 - Thus says the LORD,
“Where is the certificate H5612 of divorce
By which I have sent your mother away?
Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you?
Behold, you were sold for your iniquities,
And for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:8 - “And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ H5612 of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:13 - ‘I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book H5612 which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1 - Now these are the words of the letter H5612 which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile, the priests, the prophets and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:25 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have sent letters H5612 in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:29 - Zephaniah the priest read this letter H5612 [fn]to Jeremiah the prophet.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:2 - “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Write all the words which I have spoken to you in a book. H5612
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:10 - “I [fn]signed and sealed the deed, H5612 and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

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