צָֽפְנַת פַּעְנֵחַ
Zaphnath-paaneah
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Zaphnath-paaneah’ 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 H6847 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.
Genesis 1 verse
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.
The Hebrew name צפנת פענח centers on the idea of “Zaphnath-paaneah.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Genesis dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. It occurs only once, in Genesis 41:45. For the data behind this summary, explore 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6847 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.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 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
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: Zaphnathpaaneah 1×
- American Standard Version: Zaphenath-paneah 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Zaphenath-paneah 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Paneah 1×, Zaphenath 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6847 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6847 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6847 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6847 across 2 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.
- Zaphnath-paaneah = "treasury of the glorious rest"
- a name given by Pharaoh to Joseph
Word origin
n.pr.m. (Ṣapnĕtĕph ʿōnḫ, i.e. the god speaks and he lives, Egyptian D̲(d)-pnt(r)-ĕf-ʿnḫ, v. SteindÄZ 1889, 41 f.; 1892, 50 ff., so EbSmith DB (2), 1798 b Brugsch, v. DrHast. ii. 775 a n. §, Crumib. i. 665 b Griffithib. iii. 819 b);—Egyptian name given to Joseph Gn 41:45, Ψονθομφανηχ, 𝔊L Ψομ´.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of Egyptian derivation
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H6847 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| פַּעְנֵחַ֒ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 41:45 | 1 |
| צָֽפְנַ֣ת | Noun, Proper | Genesis 41:45 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Zaphnath-paaneah). 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
The name which Pharaoh gave to Joseph when he raised him to the rank of prime minister or grand vizier of the kingdom (Gen. 41:45). This is a pure Egyptian word, and has been variously explained. Some think it means "creator," or "preserver of life." Brugsch interprets it as "governor of the district of the place of life", i.e., of Goshen, the chief city of which was Pithom, "the place of life." Others explain it as meaning "a revealer of secrets," or "the man to whom secrets are revealed."
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
a name given by Pharaoh to Joseph. (Genesis 41:45) The rabbins interpreted Zaphnath-paaneah as Hebrew in the sense revealer of a secret . As the name must have been Egyptian, it has been explained from the Coptic as meaning the preserver of the age.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
one who discovers hidden things
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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