tsafir · male goat

What it means

tsafir (צָפִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “male goat”.

The male of the goat. A word of the late books for the animal offered for sin.

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.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A male goat, an animal offered for sin and which also served as a picture of a king.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• goat ×4
• male goats ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Daniel×4

• 2 Chronicles 29:21

  They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah; and he told the sons of Aaron, the priests, to offer them on the altar of YHWH.

• Ezra 8:35

  Those who had come from the captivity, the sons of the exile, offered burnt offerings to the Elohim of Israel: twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, twelve male goats as a sin offering; all was a burnt offering to YHWH.

• Daniel 8:5

  And I was considering, and look, a male goat was coming from the west over the face of all the earth, without touching the ground; and the goat had a conspicuous horn between its eyes.

• Daniel 8:8

  And the male goat made itself great exceedingly; and when it was strong, the great horn was broken, and there came up four conspicuous horns in its place toward the four winds of the heavens.

• Daniel 8:21

  And the goat, the shaggy one, is the king of Javan; and the great horn that is between its eyes, that is the first king.

And 1 more times.