צוּףTsûwph

צוּף: Ephraim ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (1 Samuel 1:1; 1 Chronicles 6:20; 1 Chronicles 6:11; 1 Samuel 9:5)

Pronunciation: tsoof · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6689

Meanings

צוּפִי: Suphite, so read probably for צוֺפִים (1 Samuel 1:1)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 1:1 There was a man named Elkanah who lived in Ramah in the region of Zuph in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, of Ephraim.
  • 1 Samuel 9:5 Finally, they entered the region of Zuph, and Saul said to his servant, “Let’s go home. By now my father will be more worried about us than about the donkeys!”
  • 1 Chronicles 6:26 Elkanah, Zophai, Nahath,
  • 1 Chronicles 6:35 Zuph, Elkanah, Mahath, Amasai,

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).