צָפָה

tsafa · watch

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6822 · appears 35 times in the Bible

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What it means

tsafa (צָפָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “watch”.

Keep watch, observe closely.

How to say it

tsa·fa

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.

Its senses in the Bible

To watch closely what is coming or what is happening.
One who stands guard on the wall.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

watchman ×14
watch ×9
watchmen ×5
watches ×2
watching ×2
he is stalked ×1
lookout ×1
looks ×1

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Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

Genesis 31:49
and Mizpah, for he said, “May YHWH watch between me and you when we are hidden each of us from the other.
1 Samuel 4:13
He came, and there was Eli sitting on the seat beside the road, watching, for his heart was trembling for the ark of Elohim. And the man came to tell in the city, and all the city cried out.
1 Samuel 14:16
The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and look, the multitude was melting away and going this way and that.
2 Samuel 13:34
Absalom fled. The young man on watch lifted up his eyes and looked, and there many people were coming by the road behind him, from the side of the hill.
2 Samuel 18:24
David was sitting between the two gates. The watchman went to the roof of the gate by the wall, and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and there was a man running alone.
2 Samuel 18:25
The watchman called out and told the king. The king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” And he came closer and closer.
2 Samuel 18:26
The watchman saw another man running, and the watchman called to the gatekeeper and said, “Look, a man running alone!” The king said, “This one too is bringing news.”
2 Samuel 18:27
The watchman said, “I see that the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” The king said, “He is a good man, and with good news he comes.”
2 Kings 9:17
The watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman and send him to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is there peace?’”
2 Kings 9:18
The rider on horseback went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is there peace?’” Jehu said, “What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me.” The watchman reported, saying, “The messenger came to them, but he has not come back.”
2 Kings 9:20
The watchman reported, saying, “He came to them, but he has not come back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi, for he drives like a madman.”
Job 15:22
He does not believe that he will return from darkness, and he is stalked by the sword.
Psalms 5:3
YHWH, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I lay out my prayer for you and keep watch.
Psalms 37:32
The wicked watches the righteous and seeks to put him to death.
Psalms 66:7
He rules by his might forever; his eyes watch the nations; let the rebellious not exalt themselves. Selah.
Proverbs 15:3
In every place are the eyes of YHWH, watching the evil and the good.
Proverbs 31:27
She watches over the ways of her household, and the bread of idleness she does not eat.
Song of Songs 7:4
Your neck is like a tower of ivory; your eyes are pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon that looks toward Damascus.
Isaiah 21:6
For thus Adonai said to me: “Go, post the lookout; what he sees, let him declare.
Isaiah 52:8
The voice of your watchmen! They lift up their voice, together they shout for joy; for eye to eye they will see the return of YHWH to Zion.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind, all of them; they do not know; all of them are mute dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, lovers of slumber.
Jeremiah 6:17
“And I set watchmen over you: ‘Pay attention to the sound of the horn!’” But they said, “We will not pay attention.”
Jeremiah 48:19
By the road stand and watch, you who dwell in Aroer; ask the man who flees and the woman who escapes, say, “What has happened?”
Lamentations 4:17
Still our eyes are spent looking for our help, in vain; from our watchtower we kept watch for a nation that does not save.
Ezekiel 3:17
“Son of man, a watchman I have made you for the house of Israel; you will hear a word from my mouth, and you will warn them from me.
Ezekiel 33:2
“Son of man, speak to the sons of your people, and say to them, ‘A land, when I bring a sword upon it, and the people of the land take one man from among their borders and set him as a watchman for themselves,
Ezekiel 33:6
And the watchman, if he sees the sword coming and does not blow the horn, and the people do not let themselves be warned, and the sword comes and takes from them a soul, he is taken away for his iniquity, but his blood I will require from the hand of the watchman.
Ezekiel 33:7
And you, son of man, a watchman I have made you for the house of Israel; you will hear a word from my mouth, and you will warn them from me.
Hosea 9:8
Ephraim is a watchman with my Elohim; the prophet is a fowler's snare on all his ways, hostility in the house of his Elohim.
Micah 7:4
The best of them is like a briar hedge, the upright one worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, your punishment, has come; now will be their confusion.
Micah 7:7
But I will watch for YHWH; I will await the Elohim of my salvation; my Elohim will hear me.
Nahum 2:1
The scatterer has come up against you; guard the fortification; watch the road; strengthen your waist; make strong your power greatly.
Habakkuk 2:1
At my guard post I will stand, and station myself on the fortification, and I will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my reproof.

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