Northern
צְפוֹנִיStrong’s H6830tsephoni (tse-pho-ni)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tsephoni is the Hebrew word usually translated “northerner”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.”
Meaning
- Northern
- Northern one, northerner (subst)
How it's translated
- the northerner 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
צְפוֹנִי tsephoni · northern
adj 1) northern n m 2) northern one, northerner (subst)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “northern” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NORTH'ERN, adjective
- Being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west.
- In a direction towards the north, or a point near it; as, to steer a northern course.
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.