Scroll
סְפַרStrong’s H5612sephar (se-phar)
Appears in 174 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sephar is the Hebrew word usually translated “scroll of”, “scroll” and “book of”. It appears in 174 verses of the Old Testament.
“Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.”
Meaning
- Scroll, book
- Book
How it's translated
- scroll of 58
- the scroll 20
- in book of 11
- letters 9
- a scroll 8
- the letter 8
- in the book 7
- document of 7
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 41
- Jeremiah 23
- 2 Chronicles 21
- 1 Kings 15
- Deuteronomy 11
- Esther 11
22 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 1:17In contextAs for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
- Daniel 9:2In contextIn the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
- Daniel 12:1In contextAnd at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
- Daniel 12:4In contextBut thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
- Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- Exodus 17:14And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
All 174 verses, by book
- Genesis 1
- 5:1
- 1 Samuel 1
- 10:25
- 2 Kings 41
- 1:185:55:65:78:2310:110:210:610:710:3412:1913:813:1214:614:1514:1814:2815:615:1115:1515:2115:2615:3115:3616:1919:1420:1220:2021:1721:2522:822:1022:1122:1322:1623:223:323:2123:2423:2824:5
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 9:1
- 2 Chronicles 21
- 16:1117:920:3424:2725:425:2627:728:2632:1732:3234:1434:1534:1634:1834:2134:2434:3034:3135:1235:2736:8
- Ecclesiastes 1
- 12:12
- Jeremiah 23
- 3:825:1329:129:2529:2930:232:1032:1132:1232:1432:1632:4436:236:436:836:1036:1136:1336:1836:3245:151:6051:63
- Ezekiel 1
- 2:9
- Nahum 1
- 1:1
- Malachi 1
- 3:16
Hebrew dictionary
סְפַר sephar · scroll
scroll, book Aramaic of se.pher (סֵ֫פֶר ": document" H5612A)
סִפְרָה siphrah · scroll
book
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.