H6855: צִפֹּרָה
Tsippôrâh · pronounced tsip-po-raw' · “Zipporah”
Definition
Tsipporah, Moses' wife
KJV translates it as: Zipporah.
Word origin: feminine of H6833 (צִפּוֹר); bird;
Extended definition
A woman living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Exo.2.21;
daughter of: Jethro (H3503);
sister of: Eliasaph (H0460) and Hobab (H2246); married to Moses (H4872);
mother of: Gershom (H1647) and Eliezer (H0461H)
§ Zipporah = "bird"
daughter of Reuel or Jethro, wife of Moses, and mother of Gershom and Eliezer
daughter of: Jethro (H3503);
sister of: Eliasaph (H0460) and Hobab (H2246); married to Moses (H4872);
mother of: Gershom (H1647) and Eliezer (H0461H)
§ Zipporah = "bird"
daughter of Reuel or Jethro, wife of Moses, and mother of Gershom and Eliezer
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H6855 is translated
- zipporah ×3
Bible verses with H6855 (Tsippôrâh)
Tsippôrâh appears in 3 verses.
- 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,