Bible Names

Zuph: meaning of the name

Zuph means “that beholds, observes, watches; roof; covering.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Zuph in Hebrew and Greek

צוּף H6689

Tsûwph (tsoof) — Tsuph or Tsophai or Tsiph, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine

or צוֹפַי; or צִיף; from H6688 (צוּף); honey-comb;

Who named Zuph in the Bible

Places named Zuph

Zuph in Scripture

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

  • 1 Samuel 1:1

    Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim–zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:

  • 1 Samuel 9:5

    And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:35

    The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,