סִפַּי
Sippai
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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 H5598 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.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
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“Sippai” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name ספי (Çippay). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 1 Chronicles. A true hapax — its single appearance is 1 Chronicles 20:4. See 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5598 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
- 1 Chronicles 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.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Sippai 1×
- American Standard Version: Sippai 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sippai 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Saph 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5598 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5598 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5598 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5598 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.
- Sippai = "threshold"
- one of the sons of the Philistine giant slain by Sibbechai the Hushathite
Word origin
n.pr.m. a Philistine, 2 S 21:18 (𝔊 τὸν Σεφ(ε); 𝔊L τοὺς ἐπισυνηγμένους), = סִפַּי 1 Ch 20:4 (𝔊 τὸν Σαφουτ, A Σαφφι, 𝔊L Σαπφι).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from סף (çaph) (H5592) — basin.
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.
ספי
- 1. to cut, esp. to cut a slice, to give a portion; to have a share in a meal. Pes. 3ᵇ סְפוּ לי מאליה give me a piece of the fat-tail. Midr. Till. to Ps. IV, 7 ed. Bub. מי יתן (לנו) לִסְפּוֹת עמכם וכ׳ (differ. in ed., v. ed. Bub. note) oh, that we could share with you in the good of the hereafter; Yalk. ib. 627 לספור (corr. acc.).
- 2. to consume, destroy. Tanḥ. Vayera 8 (ref. to Gen. XVIII, 23) בשר ודם האף סוֹפֶה אותו וכ׳ as regards a human being, anger consumes him (carries him away), is it so with thee? Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked? e.g. Genesis 18:23
- to be destroyed, ruined. Gen. R. s. 49 (ref. to Prov. XIII, 23) ונמצא נ׳ בלא משפט מקומו and thus he was ruined (by the tax-gatherers) not in accordance with the judgment of his place (which had been released from the tax in the meanwhile). e.g. Proverbs 13:23
סְפֵי
- 1. to cut, apportion, give to eat. Targ. Y. Num. XI, 18 (ed. Vien. יַסְפִּי׳ Af.).—Pes. 3ᵇ מי קא סָפוּ לך מאליה have they given you a piece &c.? v. preced. Ḥull. 107ᵇ לא סְפִינָא לך I should not have given thee to eat. Ib. קא סָפִית לבראי וכ׳ thou didst feed my son, and didst not wash thy hands (v. מְשֵׁי). Ib. 95ᵇ איכו השתא סְפִיתוּ וכ׳ how near you came giving the sons of B. forbidden food to eat. Ib.ᵃ top מי לא סַפְיִי לך וכ׳ (Ar. סְפָאִי) should I not have given thee a portion of the fat ox? Ib. דזבן … וס׳ לי such and such a gentile bought of it, and he gave me of it. B. Bath. 21ᵃ עד שית … קביל וסְפִי ליה וכ׳ Ar. (ed. אַסְפִּי Af.) until six years of age take no pupils, from six and upward take (the child) and feed him (with knowledge) as you feed an ox; a. fr.
- 2. to scrape together, collect. Targ. O. Ex. XXVII, 3.—Cant. R. to I, 6 ס׳ חלא וכ׳ he grabbed up sand and put it in his mouth. B. Mets. 114ᵇ סְפִי שקול וכ׳ grab and take of these leaves (of Eden); ספא שקל he grabbed and carried them off.
- same, to give to eat. Targ. Y. Num. XI, 18, v. supra.—B. Bath. 21ᵃ, v. supra.—[Lam. R. to I, 7 כד תספון כלה וכ׳, a corruption, prob. to be read: כד מַסְפִּין כלה ‘when they give a bride to eat’, some words like ‘coarse food’ being omitted.]
- [to be withdrawn, cmp. Nif. of אָסַף II Sam. XVII, 13; Jer. IV, 5, a. e.,] to shrink, be afraid. Targ. Job XXXII, 6 אִסְתְּפֵיתִי (h. text זחלתי). Targ. Y. Gen. XXI, 17 תִּסְתְּפִין (not תַּסְתִּיפִין). Ib. XLII, 4; a. fr.—Ber. 20ᵃ לא קא מִסְתְּפֵי מר מיה"ר are you not afraid of temptation? Ib. 62ᵃ לא מִסְתְּפִיתוּ are ye not afraid? Snh. 94ᵇ bot. מהאי לא תִסְתְּפִי אלא אִיסְתְּפִי וכ׳ be not afraid of this one, but be afraid of &c.; a. fr. e.g. 2 Samuel 17:13
ספי ²
- , Yalk. Gen. 133 ס׳ קולא, read: סְפִיקוּלָא.
סְפָי
- (סָפָה = b. h. שָׂפָה) rim.—Pl. סְפָיוֹת, סְפָאוֹת. Y. Ab. Zar. II, end, 42ᵃ; Tosef. Kel. B. Kam. VI, 17 (not ספונאו׳), v. אִסְטַגְיוֹת; Kel. VIII, 9 שְׂפָיוֹת. Ib. IV, 4 ספיות Ar. ed. Koh. (oth. ed. Ar. סְפָאוֹת, סְפָאיוֹת; ed. שׂפָיוֹת).—סְפָיִין, Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᵈ top, v. סִפָּא.
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
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Sippai). 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
(threshold), Saph, one of the sons of Rephaim, or "the giants," slain by Sibbechai at Gezer. (1 Chronicles 20:4) (B.C. about 1050.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
threshold; silver cup
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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