Zipporah
צִפֹּרָהStrong’s H6855tsipporah (tsip-po-rah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsipporah is the Hebrew word usually translated “zipporah”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.”
Meaning
- A woman living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Exo.2.21
How it's translated
- zipporah 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
צִפֹּרָה tsipporah · Zipporah
A woman living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Exo.2.21; daughter of: Jethro (H3503); sister of: Eliasaph (H0460) and Hobab (H2246); married to Moses (H4872); mother of: Gershom (H1647) and Eliezer (H0461H) § Zipporah = "bird" daughter of Reuel or Jethro, wife of Moses, and mother of Gershom and Eliezer
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.