זִיףZîyph
1.
Pronunciation: zeef · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2128
Meanings
a. city south east from Hebron (Joshua 15:55; 1 Chronicles 2:42; 2 Chronicles 11:8)
b. city of southern Judah (Joshua 15:24)
2. a son of יְהַלֶּלְאֵל of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:16; 1 Chronicles 2:42)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- Joshua 15:24 Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
- Joshua 15:55 Besides these, there were Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
- 1 Samuel 23:14 David now stayed in the strongholds of the wilderness and in the hill country of Ziph. Saul hunted him day after day, but God didn’t let Saul find him.
- 1 Samuel 23:15 One day near Horesh, David received the news that Saul was on the way to Ziph to search for him and kill him.
- 1 Samuel 23:24 So the men of Ziph returned home ahead of Saul. Meanwhile, David and his men had moved into the wilderness of Maon in the Arabah Valley south of Jeshimon.
- 1 Samuel 26:2 So Saul took 3,000 of Israel’s elite troops and went to hunt him down in the wilderness of Ziph.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).