צְפַרְדֵּעַ
tsefardea · frog
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6854 · appears 13 times in the Bible
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tsefardea (צְפַרְדֵּעַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “frog”.
How to say it
tse·far·de·a
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
- A small leaping water creature, as in the plague on Egypt.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Exodus 8:2
But if you refuse to let them go, look, I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.
- Exodus 8:3
The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, into the room where you sleep, and onto your bed, into the houses of your servants and among your people, into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.
- Exodus 8:4
The frogs will come up on you, on your people, and on all your servants.”’”
- Exodus 8:5
YHWH said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and bring up the frogs on the land of Egypt.’”
- Exodus 8:6
So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 8:7
But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 8:8
Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to YHWH that he remove the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to YHWH.”
- Exodus 8:9
Moses said to Pharaoh, “Have the honor over me: for when shall I pray for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and from your houses and remain only in the Nile?”
- Exodus 8:11
The frogs will depart from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”
- Exodus 8:12
Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to YHWH concerning the frogs that he had brought on Pharaoh.
- Exodus 8:13
YHWH did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courtyards, and out of the fields.
- Psalms 78:45
He sent among them swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that destroyed them.
- Psalms 105:30
Their land swarmed with frogs, in the chambers of their kings.