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hebrew #6850 - צָפַף tsaphaph (to chirp)


Original Word:צָפַף
Transliteration: tsaphaph
Definition:to chirp, peep
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(tsaw-faf')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

chirp, chatter, peep, whisper

A primitive root; to coo or chirp (as a bird) -- chatter, peep, whisper.


Englishman's Concordance

1) (Pilpel) to chirp, peep
1a) of birds
1b) of ghosts
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1957

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[צַפַף] verb Pilpelchirp, peep (onomatopoetic; Late Hebrew Pilpal id.; Jewish-Aramaic צַפְצֵףchirp; Arabic sparrow, etc.); — Imperfect3feminine singular תְּצַפְצֵףIsaiah 29:4, 1singular אֲצַפְצֵףIsaiah 38:14; ParticipleמְצַפְצֵףIsaiah 10:14, plural הַמְפְצְפִיםIsaiah 8:19; — chirp, peep:

1of birdsIsaiah 10:14 (figurative of conquered peoples); of mourning, ׳בְּסוּסאֲ֗֗֗צIsaiah 38:14 ("" אֶהְנֶּה בַּיּוֺנָה).

2of spirits, ghostsIsaiah 8:19 (+ הַמַּהְגִּים), ׳מֵעָפָר אִמְרָתֵךְ תְּצIsaiah 29:4 (like a spirit's).


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 6850. צָפַף (tsaphaph) — 4 Occurrences

Isaiah 8:19
HEB:וְאֶל־ הַיִּדְּעֹנִ֔ים הַֽמְצַפְצְפִ֖ים וְהַמַּהְגִּ֑ים הֲלוֹא־
NAS: and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,
KJV: and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:
INT: and to the spiritists whisper and mutter should not

Isaiah 10:14
HEB:וּפֹצֶ֥ה פֶ֖ה וּמְצַפְצֵֽף׃
NAS: or opened [its] beak or chirped.
KJV: or opened the mouth, or peeped.
INT: opened beak chirped

Isaiah 29:4
HEB:וּמֵעָפָ֖ר אִמְרָתֵ֥ךְ תְּצַפְצֵֽף׃
NAS: And your speech will whisper from the dust.
KJV: and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
INT: the dust and your speech will whisper

Isaiah 38:14
HEB:עָגוּר֙ כֵּ֣ן אֲצַפְצֵ֔ף אֶהְגֶּ֖ה כַּיּוֹנָ֑ה
NAS: so I twitter; I moan
KJV: [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn
INT: a crane so twitter moan A dove

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