Lexical Summary tsaphar: perhaps to depart Original Word: צָפַרTransliteration: tsaphar Phonetic Spelling: (tsaw-far') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: perhaps to depart Meaning: to skip about, return Strong's Concordance depart early A primitive root; to skip about, i.e. Return -- depart early. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6852. tsaphar I. [צָפַר] verb dubious; — Imperfect3masculine singular יָשֹׁב הַגִּלְעָד מֵהַר וְיִצְמֹּר Judges 7:3 let him return and (Vrss) let him depart, AV depart early (as Ki, from Aramaic צפרא, morning, improbable), wholly uncertain; Gr וְיַעֲבִר; on difficulty of הַגּ ׳מֵהַר see גִּלְעָד 2 and GFM, who conjectures גִּדְעֹן וְיִצְרְפֵם and so Gideson put them to test (compare Judges 7:4), so Bu Now (compare DrHast. ii. 176 n). II. צפר (√ of following; compare Arabic peep, twitter whistle (usually of bird; onomatopoetic); Assyrian ƒapâru is cry, howl: Late Hebrew צִמּוֺר = Biblical Hebrew, so Phoenician צִמַּר ᵑ7 צפר, Syriac , Mandean ציפרא ציפאר, NöM § 102; also Arabic sparrow, etc., and (perhaps) Assyrian iƒƒuru, bird). |
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