Aramaic word · H6841

צְפִיר

utzefirei

male goat

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

he-goat

Aramaic of tsa.phir (צָפִיר "male goat" H6842)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 1
  1. Ezra 6:17 וּצְפִירֵ֨י and he-goats of

    For the dedication of the house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and a sin offering for all Israel of twelve male goats, one for each tribe of Israel.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.