Want to remove ads? Support Godless Engineer

Zephaniah

Hebrew — Westminster Leningrad Codex · 3 chapters

Explore the Hebrew grammar of this book: Search Zephaniah by grammar → — find every imperative (command), or every participle.

Zephaniah 1:1

דְּבַר יְהוָ֣ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָיָ֗ה אֶל צְפַנְיָה֙ בֶּן כּוּשִׁ֣י בֶן גְּדַלְיָ֔ה בֶּן אֲמַרְיָ֖ה בֶּן חִזְקִיָּ֑ה בִּימֵ֛י יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּ בֶן אָמ֖וֹן מֶ֥לֶךְ יְהוּדָֽה

word of · LORD · which · to be · to · Zephaniah · son of · Cushi · son of · Gedaliah · son of · Amariah · son of · Hezekiah · in/at days of · Josiah · son of · Amon · king of · Judah

Open Zephaniah 1:1 word-by-word →

Chapters

Words Zephaniah uses most

Counted here from the morphology-tagged text of Zephaniah — nouns, verbs and adjectives only, so the article, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns are left out. Each word opens its full lexicon entry and every verse it appears in.

  1. יהוה H3068 Yᵉhôvâh LORD 33
  2. כֹּל H3605 kôl all 23
  3. יוֹם H3117 yôwm day 21
  4. הָיָה H1961 hâyâh to be 11
  5. בֵּן H1121 bên son 8
  6. גּוֹי H1471 gôwy nation 8
  7. יָשַׁב H3427 yâshab to dwell 8
  8. אֶ֫רֶץ H776 ʼerets land 8
  9. עַם H5971 ʻam people 7
  10. קֶ֫רֶב H7130 qereb midst 6
  11. בית H1004 bayith house 5
  12. כָּרַת H3772 kârath to cut 5

About this book

  • 3 Chapters
  • 53 Verses
  • 769 Hebrew words
  • 363 Distinct lemmas

Zephaniah is part of the Hebrew Old Testament and contains 3 chapters in the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Every chapter on this site is browseable verse by verse, with each verse showing the original Hebrew text alongside transliteration, Strong's number, concise gloss, and parsing (part of speech, stem, person, gender, number, state). Pick a chapter above to begin.

The counts on this page are not copied from a concordance — they are computed here from the morphology-tagged text of Zephaniah and our own curated glosses. How Lemma builds this →

Reading settings

Reading text

Shown beneath each verse's original-language words.

Old Testament
Old Testament edition

Read the OT as the Masoretic Hebrew (MT) or the Greek Septuagint (LXX).

English shown for the Greek Septuagint (in the Hebrew ↔ Greek comparison).

Comparing translations? Open the Compare panel on any verse page to stack up to four side by side.