וׇפְסִי
Vophsi
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Vophsi’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2058 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 1 verse
About this entry
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At its core, ופסי (Vophçîy) means “Vophsi.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. The word gravitates to Numbers (100%). A true hapax — its single appearance is Numbers 13:14. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2058 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Vophsi 1×
- American Standard Version: Vophsi 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Vophsi 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Vophsi 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2058 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2058 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2058 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2058 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Vophsi = "rich"
- father of Nahbi, the man chosen as the spy for Naphtali
Word origin
n.pr.m. a man of Naphtali; in נַחְבִּי בֶּן־וָפְסִי Nu 13:14 (text dubious; 𝔊 Ναβει υἱὸς Ἰαβει).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יסף (yâçaph) (H3254) — to add.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פַּס
- 1. strip, stripe.—Pl. פַּסֵּי. Targ. O. Gen. XXXVII, 3; 23 (ed. Berl. פָּסֵי, פַּסֵי). Targ. II Sam. XIII, 18 (ed. Wil. פַּסֵי).
- 2. פ׳ ידא palm; פס רגלא foot, v. פִּיסְּתָא.
- 3. piece, portion; bread. Bekh. 43ᵇ, v. סְקִיפַס. Lam. R. to III, 16 Ar., v. פְּטִילִיק.—Y. Ber. VI, 10ᵇ bot., v. פִּיסְּתָא.
- 4. (from its shape, cmp. כַּף) spade or shovel. Lev. R. s. 24; s. 25 Ar., v. מַכּוֹשָׁא II.—
- *5. פ׳ דביר (v. preced.) watering station. Targ. Y. I Deut. XXXIII, 3 ושריין כמין פ׳ דב׳ (not דבַר) and they rest as it were at a watering station; (Y. II על פום דבירוי).
פסי
- to spread, be extended. Y. Yoma III, beg. 40ᵇ מאור החמה פּוֹסֶה וכ׳ the light of the sun (dawn) spreads over the whole eastern horizon, opp. מתמר ועולה. Ib. 41ᵃ bot. של בית היתה מתמרת … ופוֹסָה ויורדת וכ׳ … the frankincense of Beth Abtinas rose straight in a colunn and then spread and came down &c.; Y. Shek. V, 49ᵃ top; Cant. R. to I, 14; III, 6. Ib. to IV, 14 (ref. to ואהלות ib.) [read:] (עץ) שהוא פוסה כאהל a tree which spreads like a tent. Gen. R. s. 15 (ref. to עץ החיים, Gen. II, 9) עץ שהוא פוסה על פני וכ׳ a tree which spread over all living things. Neg. IV, 8, a. fr. ופָשְׂתָה וכ׳ and the spot spread &c.; Y. M. Kat. I, 80ᶜ bot. ופָסְתָה; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 2:9
פְּסֵי
- 1. same; denom. פִּסְיוֹנָא.
- 2. to split, break; to desecrate, v. פִּיס ch.
פְּסֵי ²
- (= פסע, פסח) to step. B. Mets. 86ᵇ דלא מציא פַסְיָא קניא (Ms. H. יכלה למיפסע, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 60) which cannot step over a reed (from fatness).—[פסי איית, v. next w.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2058, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Vophsi). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(rich), father of Nahbi, the Naphtalite spy. (Numbers 13:14) (B.C. before 1490.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
fragrant; diminution
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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