צוּף

tsuphZuph

hebrewOld TestamentName of a man4 occurrences2 books4 verses

This name belongs to 2 different people and places in the Bible:

Zuph: Levite ancestor of Samuel the prophet
Zuph: A land where Saul searched for his father's donkeys

Definition

or צוֹפַי; or צִיף; from H6688; honey-comb; Tsuph or Tsophai or Tsiph, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine
Traditional renderings: Zophai, Zuph.

Glossary entries

Zuph (Person) Zophai Zuph (Place)

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

4 total

1 Samuel 1:1צ֖וּף · of Zuph
Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
1 Samuel 9:5צ֔וּף · of Zuph
When they reached the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant, “Come, let us go back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and start worrying about us.”
1 Chronicles 6:26צוֹפַ֥י · Zophai
Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son,
1 Chronicles 6:35צִיף · of Zuph
…the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,