Lexical Summary Sephar: a place in S. Arabia Original Word: סְפָרTransliteration: Sephar Phonetic Spelling: (sef-awr') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a place in S. Arabia Meaning: Sephar -- a place in southern Arabia Strong's Concordance Sephar The same as cphar; Sephar, a place in Arabia -- Sephar. see HEBREW cphar Brown-Driver-Briggs H5611. Sephar II. [סְפָר] proper name, of a location in South Arabia; — only with ה locative סְפָ֫רָה Genesis 10:30, ᵐ5 Σωφηρα; usually indentified with ˆafâr (, pronounced , , according to Thes), ancient city of Himyarite kings (Ptolemy Σαπφαρ μητρόπολις see SprengerAite Geogr. Arab. § 301 et pass.), so Thes TuComm. Genesis 2, 212, but dubious GlaserSkizze ii. 437, ס = צ improbable Dion the passage LagBN 61. |
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