Zipporah: meaning of the name

Zipporah in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Zipporah in the Bible

• Zipporah, daughter of Jethro

  3 verses · first mentioned in Exodus 2:21

Zipporah in Scripture

“Zipporah” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

• Exodus 2:21

  And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

• Exodus 4:25

  Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

• Exodus 18:2

  Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,