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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

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  • Jeremiah 32:11
    So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:
  • Jeremiah 32:12
    And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
  • Jeremiah 32:14
    Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.
  • Jeremiah 32:16
    Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,
  • Jeremiah 32:44
    Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
  • Jeremiah 36:2
    Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
  • Jeremiah 36:4
    Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
  • Jeremiah 36:8
    And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.
  • Jeremiah 36:10
    Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.
  • Jeremiah 36:11
    When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,