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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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The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now raise your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward H6828 and southward, and eastward and westward;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - “Your [fn]descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will [fn]spread out to the west and to the east, and to the north H6828 and to the south; and in you and in your [fn]descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:20 - and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north H6828 side, twenty boards,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:35 - “And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north H6828 side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:11 - “Likewise for the north H6828 side in length there shall be hangings a [fn]hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars with their twenty bases of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:25 - Then for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north H6828 side, he made twenty boards,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:11 - For the north H6828 side there were a hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their [fn]bands were of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:22 - He also put the table in the tent of meeting on the north H6828 side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:11 - ‘And he shall slaughter it on the side of the altar northward H6828 before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.

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“On the north H6828 side H6828 shall be the flag of the camp of Dan by their armies; and the leader of the sons of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35 - And the leader of the fathers’ households of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to camp on the northward H6828 side of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:7 -

‘And this shall be your northern H6828 border: you shall draw your boundary from the Great Sea to Mount Hor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:9 - and the border shall proceed to Ziphron, and its termination shall be at Hazar-enan. This shall be your northern H6828 border.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - “You shall also measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, on the south side two thousand cubits, on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north H6828 side two thousand cubits, with the city in the center. This shall become theirs as pasture lands for the cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:3 - ‘You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north H6828,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:27 - ‘Go up to the top of Pisgah and raise your eyes to the west, the north H6828, the south, and the east, and see it with your eyes; for you shall not cross over this Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:11 - Then all the people of war who were with him went up and approached, and arrived in front of the city; and they camped on the north H6828 side H6828 of Ai. And there was a valley between him and Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:13 - So they stationed the people, all the army that was on the north H6828 side H6828 of the city, and its rear guard on the west side of the city, and Joshua spent that night in the midst of the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:2 - and to the kings who were of the north H6828 in the hill country, and in the Arabah—south of [fn]Chinneroth and in the lowland, and on the [fn]heights of Dor on the west—

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:3 - from the Shihor which is [fn]east of Egypt, even as far as the border of Ekron to the north H6828 (it is counted as Canaanite); the five governors of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, the Ekronite; and the Avvite

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:5 - The eastern border was the Salt Sea, as far as the [fn]mouth of the Jordan. And the border of the north H6828 side was from the bay of the sea at the [fn]mouth of the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:6 - Then the border went up to Beth-hoglah, and continued on the north H6828 of Beth-arabah, and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7 - And the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and turned northward H6828 toward Gilgal which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south of the valley; and the border continued to the waters of En-shemesh and [fn]it ended at En-rogel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 - Then the border went up the Valley of Ben-hinnom to the slope of the Jebusite on the south (that is, Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain which is opposite the Valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the end of the Valley of Rephaim toward the north H6828.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10 - The border turned from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and continued to the slope of Mount Jearim on the north H6828 (that is, Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh and continued through Timnah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:11 - Then the border proceeded to the side of Ekron northward H6828. And the border turned to Shikkeron and continued to Mount Baalah and proceeded to Jabneel, and the [fn]border ended at the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:6 - Then the border went westward at Michmethath on the north H6828, and the border turned eastward to Taanath-shiloh and continued beyond it to the east of Janoah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9 - And the border went down to the [fn]brook of Kanah, southward of the [fn]brook (these cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh), and the border of Manasseh was on the north H6828 side H6828 of the [fn]brook, and [fn]it ended at the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10 - The south side belonged to Ephraim and the north H6828 side H6828 to Manasseh, and the sea was [fn]their border; and they reached to Asher on the north H6828 and to Issachar on the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:5 - “And they shall divide it into seven portions; Judah shall stay in its territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall stay in their territory on the north H6828.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:12 - Their border on the north H6828 side was from the Jordan, then the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north H6828, and went up through the hill country westward, and [fn]it ended at the wilderness of Beth-aven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16 - Then the border went down to the edge of the hill which is [fn]in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, which is in the Valley of Rephaim northward H6828; and it went down to the Valley of Hinnom, to the slope of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:17 - Then it turned northward H6828 and went to En-shemesh, and went to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:18 - And it continued to the side in front of the Arabah northward H6828, and went down to the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:19 - Then the border continued to the side of Beth-hoglah northward H6828; and the [fn]border ended at the north H6828 bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the southern border.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:14 - Then the border circled around it on the north H6828 to Hannathon, and [fn]it ended at the Valley of Iphtahel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:27 - It turned toward the [fn]east to Beth-dagon and reached Zebulun, and to the Valley of Iphtahel northward H6828 to Beth-emek and Neiel; then it proceeded on [fn]north to Cabul,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30 - And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance, in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north H6828 of Mount Gaash.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:9 - And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north H6828 of Mount Gaash.

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Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him got up early, and camped beside [fn]the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was on the north H6828 side H6828 of [fn]them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.

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Now the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they crossed [fn]to Zaphon; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the sons of Ammon without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you!”

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So they said, “Behold, there is a feast of the LORD from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north H6828 side H6828 of Bethel, on the east side of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south side of Lebonah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:5 - The one crag rose on the north H6828 opposite Michmash, and the other on the south opposite Geba.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:25 - It was standing on twelve oxen, three facing north H6828, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the Sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:14 - And the bronze altar, which was before the LORD, [fn]he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of the LORD, and he put it on the north H6828 side of his altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:24 - The gatekeepers were [fn]on the four sides, to the east, west, north H6828, and south.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:14 - The lot to the east fell to [fn]Shelemiah. Then they cast lots for his son Zechariah, a counselor with insight, and his lot came out to the north H6828.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:17 - On the east there were six Levites, on the north H6828 four daily, on the south four daily, and at the storehouse two by two.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:4 - It was standing on twelve oxen, three facing north H6828, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the Sea was set on top of them and all their hindquarters turned inward.

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“He stretches out the north H6828 over empty space

And hangs the earth on nothing.


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