צָפוֹן
ṣāpôn
north
Strong's H6828NounHebrewTWOT 1953b

צָפוֹן (ṣāpôn) is a Hebrew noun meaning north. It appears 153 times in 24 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H6828).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1953b)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1953b)north, hidden, dark; northern, northward
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

צָפוֹן noun, feminine: north, hidden, dark

north (as the hidden, dark)

Strong's H6828 צָפוֹן: properly, hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown)
KJV:north(-ern, side, -ward, wind).

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1953: צָפַן ṣāpan — hide, treasure up; lie hid, lurk; be hidden; covering, hoard, reserve, deny, protect; esteem, lay up, lurk privily, secret, secretly

See it in Scripture

Genesis 13:14Exodus 26:20Leviticus 1:11

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