צָפוֹן
tsafon · north
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6828 · appears 153 times in the Bible
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tsafon (צָפוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “north”.
How to say it
tsa·fon
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
- The side of the horizon opposite the south, from which armies came toward Israel.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
North. BDB: properly hidden, that is, dark; used only of the north as a quarter.
- “Northward and southward” Genesis 13:14Genesis 28:14
- The north side of the altar Leviticus 1:11
- “From the north evil will break open” Jeremiah 1:14
- “The far reaches of the north” Psalms 48:2Isaiah 14:13
- “The king of the north” in Daniel Daniel 11:6
How we translate it
“North” 142 times, “northward” 9, “northern” 1. Once it is left as a name, “Zaphon”.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- north ×142
- northward ×9
- Zaphon ×1
- northern ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×2
- Exodus×6
- Leviticus×1
- Numbers×5
- Deuteronomy×2
- Joshua×25
- Judges×4
- 1 Samuel×1
- 1 Kings×1
- 2 Kings×1
- 1 Chronicles×3
- 2 Chronicles×1
- Job×2
- Psalms×3
- Proverbs×1
- Ecclesiastes×2
- Song of Songs×1
- Isaiah×5
- Jeremiah×25
- Ezekiel×46
- Daniel×9
- Amos×1
- Zephaniah×1
- Zechariah×5
- Genesis 13:14
YHWH said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up now your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;
- Genesis 28:14
Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the ground will be blessed in you and in your offspring.
- Exodus 26:20
And for the second side of the dwelling, on the north side, twenty boards,
- Exodus 26:35
You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the dwelling; and the table you shall put on the north side.
- Exodus 27:11
And likewise for the north side, in length, hangings a hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their rods shall be of silver.
- Exodus 36:25
And for the second side of the dwelling, on the north side, he made twenty boards,
- Exodus 38:11
And for the north side, a hundred cubits; their pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their rods were of silver.
- Exodus 40:22
And he put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of the dwelling northward, outside the veil,
- Leviticus 1:11
He shall slaughter it on the side of the altar northward before YHWH, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall splash its blood against the altar all around.
- Numbers 2:25
The banner of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies; and the chief of the sons of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai,
- Numbers 3:35
And the chief of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari is Zuriel son of Abihail. They shall camp on the side of the dwelling, on the north.
- Numbers 34:7
And this shall be your north border: from the Great Sea you shall draw a line for yourselves to Mount Hor;
- Numbers 34:9
and the border shall go out to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar-enan; this shall be your north border.
- Numbers 35:5
And you shall measure outside the city the east side two thousand cubits, and the south side two thousand cubits, and the west side two thousand cubits, and the north side two thousand cubits, with the city in the middle; this shall be for them the pasturelands of the cities.
- Deuteronomy 2:3
“You have gone around this mountain long enough. Turn north.
- Deuteronomy 3:27
Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, northward, southward, and eastward, and look with your eyes, for you shall not cross this Jordan.
- Joshua 8:11
And all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near and came in front of the city and camped on the north of Ai, with the valley between him and Ai.
- Joshua 8:13
So the people positioned all the camp that was to the north of the city and its rear to the west of the city, and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.
- Joshua 11:2
and to the kings who were in the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the Shephelah, and in the heights of Dor on the west,
- Joshua 13:3
(from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, and as far as the border of Ekron to the north, it is counted as Canaanite); the five rulers of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite; and the Avvites
- Joshua 15:5
And the east border was the Salt Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan. And the border on the north side ran from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan;
- Joshua 15:6
and the border went up to Beth-hoglah, and passed along north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan son of Reuben;
- Joshua 15:7
and the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and northward turned to Gilgal, which is opposite the Ascent of Adummim, which is south of the brook; and the border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and its ends were at En-rogel;
- Joshua 15:8
and the border went up by the Valley of Ben-hinnom to the slope of the Jebusite on the south (that is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim;
- Joshua 15:10
and the border turned from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the slope of Mount Jearim on the north (that is Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along to Timnah;
- Joshua 15:11
and the border went out to the slope of Ekron to the north, and the border bent to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out to Jabneel, and the ends of the border were at the sea.
- Joshua 16:6
and the border went out to the sea, with Michmethath on the north; and the border turned eastward to Taanath-shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah;
- Joshua 17:9
And the border went down to the Brook of Kanah, south of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. And the border of Manasseh was on the north of the brook, and its ends were at the sea.
- Joshua 17:10
The south was Ephraim’s and the north Manasseh’s, and the sea was its border; and they reached Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.
- Joshua 18:5
And they shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall stay on its territory in the south, and the house of Joseph shall stay on their territory in the north.
- Joshua 18:12
And their border on the north side was from the Jordan, and the border went up to the slope of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward, and its ends were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
- Joshua 18:16
and the border went down to the end of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Ben-hinnom, which is in the Valley of Rephaim to the north; and it went down by the Valley of Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusite on the south, and went down to En-rogel;
- Joshua 18:17
and it bent northward and went out to En-shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is opposite the Ascent of Adummim, and went down to the stone of Bohan son of Reuben;
- Joshua 18:18
and it passed along to the slope opposite the Arabah on the north, and went down to the Arabah;
- Joshua 18:19
and the border passed along to the slope of Beth-hoglah on the north; and the ends of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the mouth of the Jordan, to the south. This was the south border.
- Joshua 19:14
and the border turned around it on the north to Hannathon, and its ends were at the Valley of Iphtah-el;
- Joshua 19:27
and it turned back toward the sunrise to Beth-dagon, and touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah-el to the north, Beth-emek and Neiel, and went out to Cabul on the left,
- Joshua 24:30
And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance, in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
- Judges 2:9
They buried him in the territory of his inheritance, in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
- Judges 7:1
Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, rose early, with all the people who were with him, and they camped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was north of him, from the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
And 113 more times.