Hebrew word · H6857

צְפַ֑ת

tzefat

Zephath

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

Zephath = "watch-tower"

a Canaanite city in Simeon renamed Hormah by the Israelites

Also named: chor.mah (חׇרְמָה "Hormah" H2767)

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

Judges · 1

  1. Judges 1:17 צְפַ֑ת of Zephath

    Then the men of Judah went with their brothers the Simeonites, attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and devoted the city to destruction. So it was called Hormah.

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