סָפַןçâphan

cover, cover in, panel

Pronunciation: saw-fan' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5603

Meanings

Qal: and he covered in the house with beams (?), covering (1 Kings 6:9; Jeremiah 22:14; 1 Kings 7:7)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 33:21 The people of Gad took the best land for themselves; a leader’s share was assigned to them. When the leaders of the people were assembled, they carried out the Lord’s justice and obeyed his regulations for Israel.”
  • 1 Kings 6:9 After completing the Temple structure, Solomon put in a ceiling made of cedar beams and planks.
  • 1 Kings 7:3 The hall had a cedar roof. Above the beams on the pillars were forty-five side rooms, arranged in three tiers of fifteen each.
  • 1 Kings 7:7 Solomon also built the throne room, known as the Hall of Justice, where he sat to hear legal matters. It was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.
  • Jeremiah 22:14 He says, ‘I will build a magnificent palace with huge rooms and many windows. I will panel it throughout with fragrant cedar and paint it a lovely red.’
  • Haggai 1:4 “Why are you living in luxurious houses while my house lies in ruins?

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).