Lexicon Tsaphon: "north," a place on the E. bank of the Jordan Original Word: צָפוֹןPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Tsaphon Phonetic Spelling: (tsaw-fone') Short Definition: Zaphon NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom tsaphanDefinition"north," a place on the E. bank of the Jordan NASB TranslationZaphon (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs II. צָפוֺן proper name, of a location on east bank of Jordan, in tribe of Gad, ׳צ Joshua 13:27 ( Σαφαν[ων]), צָפ֫וֺנָה Judges 12:1 ( βοῤρἇν, ᵐ5L Σεφηνα); according to Talmud = modern Amateh, north of Jabbok, GFM Buhl Geogr. 259 (who doubts); ‚apuna appears Tel Amarna Wkl No. 174. Strong's Zaphon The same as tsaphown; boreal; Tsaphon, a place in Palestine -- Zaphon. see HEBREW tsaphown |
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