Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #6857 - צְפַת Tsephath (a Canaanite city)

Original Word:	צְפַת
Transliteration:	Tsephath
Definition:	a Canaanite city
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Location
Phonetic Spelling:	(tsef-ath')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Zephath

From tsaphah; watch-tower; Tsephath, a place in Palestine -- Zephath.

see HEBREW tsaphah

Englishman's Concordance

Zephath=“watch-tower”
1) a Canaanite city in Simeon renamed Hormah by the Israelites
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H6822

Brown-Driver-Briggs

צְפַ֑תproper name, of a locationΣεφεκ[π]: Canaanite city Judges 1:17=חָרְמָה q. v.; identification by many (see especially Palmer^{Desert of Exod. 374 ff.}) with Sebaita (approximately Latitude 30° 54' north, Longitude 34° 40' east). by Rob^{BR ii. 181} with pass eƒ-‚ªfâh further east; against both see GFM.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 6857. צְפַת (Tsephath) — 1 Occurrence
Judges 1:17
HEB:הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י יוֹשֵׁ֣ב צְפַ֑ת וַיַּחֲרִ֣ימוּ אוֹתָ֔הּ
NAS: living in Zephath, and utterly destroyed
KJV: that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed
INT: the Canaanites living Zephath and utterly was called

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