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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.

  • 2 Kings 23:3
    And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
  • 2 Kings 23:21
    And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
  • 2 Kings 23:24
    Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
  • 2 Kings 23:28
    Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
  • 2 Kings 24:5
    Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
  • 1 Chronicles 9:1
    So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.
  • 2 Chronicles 16:11
    And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
  • 2 Chronicles 17:9
    And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.
  • 2 Chronicles 20:34
    Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
  • 2 Chronicles 24:27
    Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.