Zelophehad
צְלׇפְחָדStrong’s H6765tselophchad (tse-loph-chad)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tselophchad is the Hebrew word usually translated “zelophehad”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.”
Meaning
- A man of the tribe of Manasseh living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.26.33
How it's translated
- zelophehad 8
- and zelophehad 1
- and to zelophehad 1
- to zelophehad 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 7
- Joshua 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 27:1Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
- Numbers 27:7The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
- Numbers 36:2And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
- Numbers 36:6This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
- Numbers 36:10Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
- Numbers 36:11For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:
Hebrew dictionary
צְלׇפְחָד tselophchad · Zelophehad
A man of the tribe of Manasseh living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.26.33; son of: Hepher (H2660A); father of: Mahlah (H4244), Noah (H5270), Hoglah (H2295), Milcah (H4435H) and Tirzah (H8656) § Zelophehad = "first-born" a Manassite, son of Hepher and grandson of Gilead; came out of Egypt with Moses and died in the wilderness leaving only five daughters as heirs; their right to the inheritance was confirmed by divine direction
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.