Scroll
סְפַרStrong’s H5609sephar (se-phar)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sephar is the Aramaic word usually translated “book of”, “books the” and “books”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.”
Meaning
- Scroll, book
How it's translated
- in book of 2
- books the 1
- book of 1
- and books 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 3
- Daniel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 4:15That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
- Ezra 6:1Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
- Ezra 6:18And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
Aramaic dictionary
סְפַר sephar · scroll
scroll, book Aramaic of se.pher (סֵ֫פֶר ": document" H5612A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scroll” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCROLL, noun
[probably formed from roll, or its root.]
- “The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll” Isaiah 34:4
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.