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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 13:3אֶלצָֿפוֺן 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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, H6828 and southward, and eastward, and westward:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, H6828 and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:20 - And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north H6828 side there shall be twenty boards:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:35 - And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north H6828 side.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:11 - And likewise for the north H6828 side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:25 - And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north H6828 corner, he made twenty boards,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:11 - And for the north H6828 side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:22 - And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, H6828 without the vail.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:11 - And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward H6828 before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:25 - The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side H6828 by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35 - And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward. H6828
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:7 - And this shall be your north H6828 border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:9 - And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north H6828 border.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - And ye shall measure from without 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 H6828 side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:3 - Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. H6828
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:27 - Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, H6828 and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:11 - And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side H6828 of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:13 - And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north H6828 of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:2 - And to the kings that were on the north H6828 of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:3 - From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, H6828 which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:5 - And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north H6828 quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:6 - And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north H6828 of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7 - And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, H6828 looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 - And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward: H6828
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10 - And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, H6828 and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:11 - And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: H6828 and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:6 - And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; H6828 and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9 - And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also was on the north side H6828 of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the sea:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10 - Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward H6828 it was Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, H6828 and in Issachar on the east.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:5 - And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north. H6828
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:12 - And their border on the north H6828 side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north H6828 side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16 - And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, H6828 and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:17 - And was drawn from the north, H6828 and went forth to Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:18 - And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, H6828 and went down unto Arabah:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:19 - And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: H6828 and the outgoings of the border were at the north H6828 bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:14 - And the border compasseth it on the north side H6828 to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:27 - And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side H6828 of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30 - And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side H6828 of the hill of Gaash.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:9 - And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side H6828 of the hill Gaash.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 - Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side H6828 of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 - And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, H6828 and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19 - Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side H6828 of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:5 - The forefront of the one was situate northward H6828 over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:25 - It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, H6828 and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:14 - And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north H6828 side of the altar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:24 - In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, H6828 and south.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:14 - And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward. H6828
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:17 - Eastward were six Levites, northward H6828 four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:4 - It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, H6828 and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:7 - He stretcheth out the north H6828 over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

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