tsuf · Zuph

What it means

tsuf (צוּף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Zuph”.

An ancestor of the prophet Samuel; also a region bearing his name (1 Samuel 9:5).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Zuph ×3
• Zophai ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×2
• 1 Chronicles×2

• 1 Samuel 1:1

  There was a certain man from Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

• 1 Samuel 9:5

  When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his young man who was with him, “Come, let us go back, or else my father will stop thinking about the donkeys and worry about us.”

• 1 Chronicles 6:26

  Elkanah; the sons of Elkanah: Zophai, his son; Nahath, his son;

• 1 Chronicles 6:35

  the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,