1. צָפוֹן
north, hidden, dark
The corpus record — Hebrew
צָפֹ֥נָה
tsaphown · n.f
north, hidden, dark
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 153 · 4.99/10k
Senses
2. צָפוֹן
properly, hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as aquarter (gloomy and unknown)
Attestations
- צָפֹ֥נָ/ה Genesis 13:14 (BHS)
- וְ/צָפֹ֣נָ/ה Genesis 28:14 (BHS)
- צָפ֑וֹן Exodus 26:20 (BHS)
- צָפֽוֹן Exodus 26:35 (BHS)
- צָפוֹן֙ Exodus 27:11 (BHS)
- צָפ֑וֹן Exodus 36:25 (BHS)
6 of 153 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.