Hebrew word · H6855

צִפֹּרָה

tziporah

Zipporah

Appears 3 times in 3 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

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

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

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Where it appears

Exodus · 3

  1. Exodus 2:21 צִפֹּרָ֥ה Zipporah

    Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

  2. Exodus 4:25 צִפֹּרָ֜ה Zipporah

    But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.

  3. Exodus 18:2 צִפֹּרָ֖ה Zipporah

    After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,

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