tsaphon (north) · Rightly

Meaning

North (of direction), northwardnorth · northward
This name means north

How it's translated

north -ward 42
north 35
from north 31
the north 22
and north -ward 5
to the north 4
from north -ward 2
zaphon 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Ezekiel 38
Jeremiah 25
Joshua 22
Daniel 9
Exodus 6
Numbers 5

24 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Daniel 11:6In contextAnd in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
Daniel 11:7In contextBut out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:
Daniel 11:8In contextAnd shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.
Daniel 11:11In contextAnd the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.
Daniel 11:13In contextFor the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.
Daniel 11:15In contextSo the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.

All 141 verses, by book

Genesis 2: 13:14 28:14
Exodus 6: 26:20 26:35 27:11 36:25 38:11 40:22
Leviticus 1: 1:11
Numbers 5: 2:25 3:35 34:7 34:9 35:5
Deuteronomy 2: 2:3 3:27
Joshua 22: 8:11 8:13 11:2 13:3 15:5 15:6 15:7 15:8 15:10 15:11 16:6 17:9 17:10 18:5 18:12 18:16 18:17 18:18 18:19 19:14 19:27 24:30
Judges 4: 2:9 7:1 12:1 21:19
1 Samuel 1: 14:5
1 Kings 1: 7:25
2 Kings 1: 16:14
1 Chronicles 3: 9:24 26:14 26:17
2 Chronicles 1: 4:4
Job 2: 26:7 37:22
Psalms 3: 48:2 89:12 107:3
Proverbs 1: 25:23
Ecclesiastes 2: 1:6 11:3
Song of Solomon 1: 4:16
Isaiah 5: 14:13 14:31 41:25 43:6 49:12
Jeremiah 25: 1:13 1:14 1:15 3:12 3:18 4:6 6:1 6:22 10:22 13:20 15:12 16:15 23:8 25:9 25:26 31:8 46:6 46:10 46:20 46:24 47:2 50:3 50:9 50:41 51:48
Ezekiel 38: 1:4 8:3 8:5 8:14 9:2 20:47 21:4 26:7 32:30 38:6 38:15 39:2 40:19 40:20 40:23 40:35 40:40 40:44 40:46 41:11 42:1 42:2 42:4 42:11 42:13 42:17 44:4 46:9 46:19 47:2 47:15 47:17 48:1 48:10 48:16 48:17 48:30 48:31
Daniel 9: 8:4 11:6 11:7 11:8 11:11 11:13 11:15 11:40 11:44
Amos 1: 8:12
Zephaniah 1: 2:13
Zechariah 4: 2:6 6:6 6:8 14:4

Hebrew dictionary

צָפוֹן tsaphon · north

1) north (of direction), northward 1a) north 1b) northward

צָפוֹן tsaphon · Zaphon

This name means north Also named: tsa.phon (צָפוֹן "Zaphon" H6829)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “north” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

NORTH, noun

[I know not the origin of this word, nor its primary sense. It may have been applied first to the pole star, or to the wind, like Boreas.]

One of the cardinal points, being that point of the horizon which is directly opposite to the sun in the meridian, on the left hand when we stand with the face to the east; or it is that point of intersection of the horizon and meridian which is nearest our pole.

All definitions and other forms of “north”

NORTH, adjective

Being in the north; as the north polar star.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.