רִצְפָּהRitspâh

proper name, feminine: concubine of Saul (2 Samuel 3:7; 2 Samuel 21:8; 2 Samuel 21:10; 2 Samuel 21:11)

Pronunciation: rits-paw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7532

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 3:7 One day Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, accused Abner of sleeping with one of his father’s concubines, a woman named Rizpah, daughter of Aiah.
  • 2 Samuel 21:8 But he gave them Saul’s two sons Armoni and Mephibosheth, whose mother was Rizpah daughter of Aiah. He also gave them the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab, the wife of Adriel son of Barzillai from Meholah.
  • 2 Samuel 21:10 Then Rizpah daughter of Aiah, the mother of two of the men, spread burlap on a rock and stayed there the entire harvest season. She prevented the scavenger birds from tearing at their bodies during the day and stopped wild animals from eating them at night.
  • 2 Samuel 21:11 When David learned what Rizpah, Saul’s concubine, had done,

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).