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Lexicon :: Strong's H6717 - ṣîḇā'

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צִיבָא
Transliteration
ṣîḇā'
Pronunciation
tsee-baw'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as צוֹבָא (H6678)
Strong’s Definitions

צִיבָא Tsîybâʼ, tsee-baw'; from the same as H6678; station; Tsiba, an Israelite:—Ziba.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's H6717 in the following manner: Ziba (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's H6717 in the following manner: Ziba (16x).

  1. Ziba = "statue"

    1. a servant of Saul whom David made steward of Jonathan's son Mephibosheth

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צִיבָא Tsîybâʼ, tsee-baw'; from the same as H6678; station; Tsiba, an Israelite:—Ziba.
STRONGS H6717: Abbreviations
צִיבָא and (2 Samuel 16:4) צִבָא 16 proper name, masculine Σ(ε)ιβα: servant of Saul's house, 2 Samuel 9:2 (twice in verse) + 14 times 2 Samuel 9; 2 Samuel 16; 2 Samuel 19.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Samuel

9:2; 16:4

H6717

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Strong's Number H6717 matches the Hebrew צִיבָא (ṣîḇā'),
which occurs 16 times in 13 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:2 - He summoned a man named Ziba, who had been one of Saul’s servants. “Are you Ziba?” the king asked.
“Yes sir, I am,” Ziba replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:3 - The king then asked him, “Is anyone still alive from Saul’s family? If so, I want to show God’s kindness to them.”
Ziba replied, “Yes, one of Jonathan’s sons is still alive. He is crippled in both feet.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:4 - “Where is he?” the king asked.
“In Lo-debar,” Ziba told him, “at the home of Makir son of Ammiel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:9 - Then the king summoned Saul’s servant Ziba and said, “I have given your master’s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:10 - You and your sons and servants are to farm the land for him to produce food for your master’s household.[fn] But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will eat here at my table.” (Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:11 - Ziba replied, “Yes, my lord the king; I am your servant, and I will do all that you have commanded.” And from that time on, Mephibosheth ate regularly at David’s table,[fn] like one of the king’s own sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:12 - Mephibosheth had a young son named Mica. From then on, all the members of Ziba’s household were Mephibosheth’s servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1 - When David had gone a little beyond the summit of the Mount of Olives, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth,[fn] was waiting there for him. He had two donkeys loaded with 200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 bunches of summer fruit, and a wineskin full of wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2 - “What are these for?” the king asked Ziba.
Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s people to ride on, and the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat. The wine is for those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:3 - “And where is Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson?” the king asked him.
“He stayed in Jerusalem,” Ziba replied. “He said, ‘Today I will get back the kingdom of my grandfather Saul.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:4 - “In that case,” the king told Ziba, “I give you everything Mephibosheth owns.”
“I bow before you,” Ziba replied. “May I always be pleasing to you, my lord the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - A thousand other men from the tribe of Benjamin were with him, including Ziba, the chief servant of the house of Saul, and Ziba’s fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed down to the Jordan to meet the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:29 - “You’ve said enough,” David replied. “I’ve decided that you and Ziba will divide your land equally between you.”
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