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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 - Now there was a servant of Saul’s household named Ziba. They summoned him to appear before David, and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” “At your service,” he replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:3 - The king asked, “Is there no one still alive from the house of Saul to whom I can show God’s kindness?” Ziba answered the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan; he is lame in both feet.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:4 - “Where is he?” the king asked. Ziba answered, “He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:9 - Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s steward, and said to him, “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 your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the crops, so that your master’s grandson may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:11 - Then Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do whatever my lord the king commands his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s[fn] table like one of the king’s sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1 - When David had gone a short distance beyond the summit, there was Ziba, the steward of Mephibosheth, waiting to meet him. He had a string of donkeys saddled and loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred cakes of raisins, a hundred cakes of figs and a skin of wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2 - The king asked Ziba, “Why have you brought these?” Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on, the bread and fruit are for the men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:3 - The king then asked, “Where is your master’s grandson?” Ziba said to him, “He is staying in Jerusalem, because he thinks, ‘Today the Israelites will restore to me my grandfather’s kingdom.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:4 - Then the king said to Ziba, “All that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours.” “I humbly bow,” Ziba said. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - With him were a thousand Benjamites, along with Ziba, the steward of Saul’s household, and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed to the Jordan, where the king was.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:29 - The king said to him, “Why say more? I order you and Ziba to divide the land.”
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