Bible Names

Ziph: meaning of the name

Ziph means “this mouth or mouthful; falsehood.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ziph in Hebrew and Greek

זִיף H2128

Zîyph (zeef) — Ziph, the name of a place in Palestine; also of an Israelite

from the same as H2203 (זֶפֶת); flowing;

Who named Ziph in the Bible

Places named Ziph

Ziph in Scripture

“Ziph” appears in 9 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Joshua 15:24

    Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

  • Joshua 15:55

    Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,

  • 1 Samuel 23:14

    And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

  • 1 Samuel 23:15

    And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

  • 1 Samuel 23:24

    And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.

  • 1 Samuel 26:2

    Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:42

    Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:16

    And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.