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To depart

צָפַרStrong’s H6852

tsaphar (tsa-phar)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Tsaphar is the Hebrew word usually translated “may go”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.”
Judges 7:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) to go early, depart earlymeaning uncertain
How it's translated
  • and he may go 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Judges 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    צָפַר tsaphar · to depart

    1) (Qal) to go early, depart early 1a) meaning uncertain

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    DEPART, verb intransitive

    1. To go or move from.“DEPART from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire” Matthew 25:41
    2. To go from; to leave; to desist, as from a practice.
    3. To leave; to deviate from; to forsake; not to adhere to or follow; as, we cannot depart from our rules.“I have not departed from thy judgments” Psalms 119:102
    4. To desist; to leave; to abandon; as, he would not depart from his purpose, resolution, or demand.
    All definitions and other forms of “depart”
    1. To be lost; to perish; to vanish; as, his glory has departed.
    2. To die; to decease; to leave this world.“Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word” Luke 2:29
    3. To cease.
    4. To deviate; to vary from.
    5. To vary; to deviate from the title or defense in pleading.
    6. To part with.

    DEPART, verb transitive

    To divide or separate; to part.

      DEPART, noun

      1. The act of going away; death.
      2. Division; separation.

      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.