Rizpah
רִצְפָּהStrong’s H7532ritspah (rits-pah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ritspah is the Hebrew word usually translated “rizpah”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father’s concubine?”
Meaning
- A woman living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.3.7
How it's translated
- rizpah 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 21:8But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
- 2 Samuel 21:10And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
- 2 Samuel 21:11And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
Hebrew dictionary
רִצְפָּה ritspah · Rizpah
A woman living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.3.7; daughter of: Aiah (H0345H); married to Saul (H7586G); mother of: Armoni (H0764) and Mephibosheth (H4648H) § Rizpah = "pavement" a concubine of king Saul and mother of Armoni and Mephibosheth
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.