tsapachat · jug, flask

What it means

tsapachat (צַפַּחַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “jug, flask”.

Jug or flask for water or oil, flat in shape.

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 flat flask for water or oil.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• jug ×4
• jar ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×4

• 1 Samuel 26:11

  Far be it from me, by YHWH, to stretch out my hand against the anointed of YHWH! Now please take the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go away.”

• 1 Samuel 26:12

  David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head, and they went away. No one saw, no one knew, and no one woke up, for all of them were asleep, because a deep sleep from YHWH had fallen upon them.

• 1 Samuel 26:16

  This thing that you have done is not good. As YHWH lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, over the anointed of YHWH. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”

• 1 Kings 17:12

  She said, “As YHWH your Elohim lives, I have no cake, only a handful of flour in the jar and a little oil in the jug; and look, I am gathering a couple of sticks, and I will go in and prepare it for myself and for my son, and we will eat it and die.”

• 1 Kings 17:14

  For thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up, and the jug of oil will not run short, until the day that YHWH gives rain on the face of the ground.’”

• 1 Kings 17:16

  The jar of flour was not used up, and the jug of oil did not run short, according to the word of YHWH that he spoke through Elijah.

• 1 Kings 19:6

  He looked, and there, at his head, was a cake baked on hot stones and a jug of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.