צִפֹּרָהTsippôrâh
proper name, feminine: wife of Moses (Exodus 2:21; Exodus 4:25; Exodus 18:2)
Pronunciation: tsip-po-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6855
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 2:21 Moses accepted the invitation, and he settled there with him. In time, Reuel gave Moses his daughter Zipporah to be his wife.
- Exodus 4:25 But Moses’ wife, Zipporah, took a flint knife and circumcised her son. She touched his feet with the foreskin and said, “Now you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”
- Exodus 18:2 Earlier, Moses had sent his wife, Zipporah, and his two sons back to Jethro, who had taken them in.
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).