King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5611
Transliteration: Sephar
Phonetic Spelling: (sef-awr')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: a place in S. Arabia
Meaning: Sephar -- a place in southern Arabia
Word Summary
Sephar: a place in S. Arabia
Original Word: סְפָרTransliteration: Sephar
Phonetic Spelling: (sef-awr')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: a place in S. Arabia
Meaning: Sephar -- a place in southern Arabia
Strong's Concordance
Sephar The same as cphar; Sephar, a place in Arabia -- Sephar.
see HEBREW cphar
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5611. Sephar
II. [סְפָר] proper name, of a location in South Arabia; — only with ה locative סְפָ֫רָה Genesis 10:30, ᵐ5 Σωφηρα; usually indentified with ˆafâr (, pronounced , , according to Thes), ancient city of Himyarite kings (Ptolemy Σαπφαρ μητρόπολις see SprengerAite Geogr. Arab. § 301 et pass.), so Thes TuComm. Genesis 2, 212, but dubious GlaserSkizze ii. 437, ס = צ improbable Dion the passage LagBN 61.