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סֵפֶר H5612

çêpher

say'-fer

or (feminine) סִפְרָה; (Psalm 56:8 (אֲבֵדָה)), from סָפַר; properly, writing (the art or a document); by implication, a book; bill, book, evidence, [idiom] learn(-ed) (-ing), letter, register, scroll.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

סֵ֫פֶר 185 n.m. missive, document, writing, book
1 missive
2 legal document
3 book or scroll, in which something is written to preserve it for future use
[סִפְרָה] n.f. book;—sf. ψ 56:9

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


174 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Genesis 5:1
    This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
  • Exodus 17:14
    And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
  • Exodus 24:7
    And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
  • Exodus 32:32
    Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
  • Exodus 32:33
    And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
  • Numbers 5:23
    And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
  • Numbers 21:14
    Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
  • Deuteronomy 17:18
    And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
  • Deuteronomy 24:1
    When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
  • Deuteronomy 24:3
    And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;