Bible Names

Zif: meaning of the name

Zif means “this or that; brightness; comeliness.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Zif in Hebrew and Greek

זִו H2099

Ziv (zeev') — Ziv (corresponding to Ijar or May)

probably from an unused root meaning to be prominent; properly, brightness (compare...

Zif in Scripture

“Zif” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Kings 6:1

    And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.

  • 1 Kings 6:37

    In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the Lord laid, in the month Zif: