NAVE: Zophai Zuph
SMITH: ZOPHAI ZUPH
ISBE: ZOPHAI ZUPH
EBD: Zuph
Zuph
In Bible versions:
Zophai: TEVZuph: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
son of Elkanah I (Kohath Levi); forefather of Samuel
a district of uncertain location
that beholds, observes, watches; roof; covering
(31° 50´, 35° 11´); Hebrew
Strongs #06689: Pwu Tsuwph or ypwu Tsowphay or Pyu Tsiyph
Zuph or Zophai = "honeycomb"n pr m
1) a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel
n pr loc
2) a district northwest of Jerusalem where Saul encountered Samuel
6689 Tsuwph tsoof
or Tsowphay {tso-fah'-ee}; or Tsiyph {tseef}; from 6688; honey-comb; Tsuph or Tsophai or Tsiph, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine: KJV -- Zophai, Zuph.see HEBREW for 06688
Zophai [nave]
ZOPHAI, son of Elkanah, 1 Chr. 6:26.Zuph [nave]
ZUPH1. A Kohathite, 1 Sam. 1:1; 1 Chr. 6:35.
2. A district northwest of Jerusalem, 1 Sam. 9:5.
ZOPHAI [smith]
(descended from Zuph), a Kohathite Levite, son of Elkanah and ancestor of Samuel. (2Â Chronicles 6:26) (11). In ver. 35 he is calledZUPH [smith]
(honeycomb), The land of, a district at which Saul and his servant arrived after passing through the possessions of Shalisha, of Shalim and of the Benjamites. (1Â Samuel 9:5) only. It evidently contained the city in which they encountered Samuel, ver. 6, and that again was certainly not far from the "tomb of Rachel." It may perhaps be identified with Soba, a well-known place about seven miles due west of Jerusalem.ZOPHAI [isbe]
ZOPHAI - zo'fi, zo'-fa-i (tsophay, meaning uncertain): In 1 Ch 6:26 (Hebrew verse 11) = Zuph, the Qere of 1 Ch 6:35 (Hebrew, verse 20), and 1 Sam 1:1.See ZUPH, (1).
ZUPH [isbe]
ZUPH - zuf (tsuph, "honeycomb"):(1) According to 1 Sam 1:1b; 1 Ch 6:35 (Hebrew verse 20) = "Zophai" of 1 Ch 6:26 (11), an ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel. But Budde and Wellhausen take it to be an adjective, and so read tsuphi, in 1 Sam 1:1b: "Tohu a Zuphite, an Ephraimite." It should probably be read also in 1:1a: "Now there was a certain man of the Ramathites, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim," as the Hebrew construction in the first part of the verse is otherwise unnatural. The Septuagint's Codex Alexandrinus has Soup; Lucian has Souph in 1 Sam 1:1b; 1 Ch 6:26 (11); Codex Vaticanus has Souphei; Codex Alexandrinus and Lucian have Souphi; 6:35 (20), Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus have Souph; Lucian has Souphi; and the Kethibh has tsiph.
(2) The Septuagint's Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus have Seiph; Lucian has Sipha, "the land of Zuph," a district in Benjamin, near its northern border (1 Sam 9:5).
David Francis Roberts
Zuph [ebd]
honeycomb, a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (1 Sam. 1:1); called also Zophai (1 Chr. 6:26).
