tsiva · Ziba

What it means

tsiva (צִיבָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Ziba”.

A servant of the house of Saul whom David put in charge of Mephibosheth's lands (2 Samuel 9; 16; 19).

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.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel 9:2

  Now the house of Saul had a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David. The king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” He said, “Your servant.”

• 2 Samuel 9:3

  The king said, “Is there no longer any man of the house of Saul, that I may do the loyal love of Elohim with him?” Ziba said to the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan, injured in the feet.”

• 2 Samuel 9:4

  The king said to him, “Where is he?” Ziba said to the king, “Look, he is in the house of Machir son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.”

• 2 Samuel 9:9

  The king called to Ziba, Saul’s young man, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your lord’s son.

• 2 Samuel 9:10

  And you shall work the ground for him, you and your sons and your servants, and you shall bring in the produce, and it will be bread for your lord’s son to eat; but Mephibosheth your lord’s son will eat bread at my table always.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

• 2 Samuel 9:11

  Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at my table, like one of the sons of the king.

• 2 Samuel 9:12

  Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. And all who lived in the house of Ziba were servants of Mephibosheth.

• 2 Samuel 16:1

  David had gone on a little from the summit, and there was Ziba, the young man of Mephibosheth, to meet him, with a pair of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

• 2 Samuel 16:2

  The king said to Ziba, “What are these to you?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the household of the king to ride, and the bread and the summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for the exhausted in the wilderness to drink.”

• 2 Samuel 16:3

  The king said, “And where is the son of your master?” Ziba said to the king, “Look, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give back to me the kingdom of my father.’”

• 2 Samuel 16:4

  The king said to Ziba, “Look, yours is all that belonged to Mephibosheth.” Ziba said, “I bow down; may I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king.”

• 2 Samuel 19:17

  With him were a thousand men from Benjamin, and Ziba, the young man of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they rushed into the Jordan before the king.

• 2 Samuel 19:29

  The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your affairs? I have said: you and Ziba shall divide the land.”

And 3 more times.