Willow
צַפְצָפָהStrong’s H6851tsaphtsaphah (tsaph-tsa-phah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tsaphtsaphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “willow”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.”
Meaning
- A kind of willow, willow tree
How it's translated
- a willow 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
צַפְצָפָה tsaphtsaphah · willow
a kind of willow, willow tree
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “willow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WILLOW, noun
[Latin]
A tree of the genus Salix. There are several species of willow the white, the black, the purple or red, the sallow, and the broad leaved willow etc. A species called the weeping willow has long and slender branches which droop and hang downward, the Salix Babylonica.
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.