Bible Names

Zophar: meaning of the name

Zophar means “rising early; crown.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Zophar in Hebrew and Greek

צוֹפַר H6691

Tsôwphar (tso-far') — Tsophar, a friend of Job

from H6852 (צָפַר); departing;

Who named Zophar in the Bible

Zophar in Scripture

“Zophar” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Job 2:11

    Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

  • Job 11:1

    Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

  • Job 20:1

    Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

  • Job 42:9

    So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Job.