Zuph

Zuph Scripture - 1 Samuel 9:5

[And] when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that [was] with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave [caring] for the asses, and take thought for us....

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Zuph Scripture - 1 Samuel 1:1

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name [was] Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:...

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Zuph Scripture - 1 Chronicles 6:35

The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,...

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Zuph in Wikipedia

Zuph meaning honeycomb in Hebrew - is the Biblical name of: A Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (1 Sam. 1:1); called also Zophai and Ziph. Land of Zuph (1 Sam. 9:5, 6), a district in which lay Samuel's city, Ramathaim-Zophim. It was probably so named after Zuph (1 Chr. 6:26). Zuph and the city of Ramathaim-Zophim are mentioned in...

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Zuph in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(honeycomb), The land of, a district at which Saul and his servant arrived after passing through the possessions of Shalisha, of Shalim and of the Benjamites. 1Sa 9:5 only. It evidently contained the city in which they encountered Samuel, ver. 6, and that again was certainly not far from the "tomb of Rachel." It may perhaps be identified with ...

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Zuph in Easton's Bible Dictionary

honeycomb, a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (1 Sam. 1:1); called also Zophai (1 Chr. 6:26)....

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Zuph in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Samuel's ancestor (1 Samuel 1:1); ZOPHAI in 1 Chronicles 6:26....

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Zuph in Naves Topical Bible

-1. A Kohathite 1Sa 1:1; 1Ch 6:35 -2. A district northwest of Jerusalem 1Sa 9:5...

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Zuph in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

zuf (tsuph, "honeycomb"): (1) According to 1 Sam 1:1b; 1 Ch 6:35 (Hebrew verse 20) = "Zophai" of 1 Ch 6:26 (11), an ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel. But Budde and Wellhausen take it to be an adjective, and so read tsuphi, in 1 Sam 1:1b: "Tohu a Zuphite, an Ephraimite." It should probably be read also in 1:1a: "Now there was a certain man of the...

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