צוֹפַר
Zophar
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Zophar’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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 H6691 appears — 4 distinct verses 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.
Job 4 verses
- Job 2:11 וְ/צוֹפַ֖ר conj + n Proper Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
- Job 11:1 צֹפַ֥ר n Proper Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,
- Job 20:1 צֹפַ֥ר n Proper Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
- Job 42:9 צֹפַר֙ n Proper So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
צופר — transliterated Tsôwphar — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Zophar.” It occurs a mere 4 verses across Scripture. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Job. Debuting at Job 2:11, it then recurs through the corpus. See 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6691 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Job 4 verses 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 4 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Zophar 4×
- American Standard Version: Zophar 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Zophar 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Zophar 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6691 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6691 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6691 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6691 across 4 tagged occurrences — 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.
- Zophar = "sparrow"
- the 3rd friend of Job
Word origin
and (Jb 2:11) צוֹפַר n.pr.m. Job’s third friend, צ׳ הַנַּעֲמָתִי Jb 2:11; 11:1; 20:1; 42:9; Σωφαρ.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צפר (tsâphar) (H6852) — to depart early.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H6691 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| צֹפַ֥ר | Noun, Proper | Job 11:1 | 2 |
| וְ/צוֹפַ֖ר | Noun, Proper | Job 2:11 | 1 |
| צֹפַר֙ | Noun, Proper | Job 42:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6691, 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
- טפר ṭᵉphar H2953 fingernail
- צפור tsippôwr H6833 bird
- צפיר tsâphîyr H6842 he-goat
- צפרדע tsᵉphardêaʻ H6854 frogs
- צפרן tsippôren H6856 fingernail
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Zophar). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Chirping, one of Job's friends who came to condole with him in his distress (Job 2:11. The LXX. render here "king of the Mineans" = Ma'in, Maonites, Judg. 10:12, in Southern Arabia). He is called a Naamathite, or an inhabitant of some unknown place called Naamah.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(sparrow), one of the three friends of Job. (Job 2:11; 11:1; 20:1; 42:9)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
rising early; crown
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
