STRONGS NUMBER H6855


Word Summary
Tsipporah: "bird", Moses' wife
Original Word: צִפֹּרָה
Transliteration: Tsipporah
Phonetic Spelling: (tsip-po-raw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Feminine
Short Definition: "bird", Moses' wife
Meaning: Zipporah -- "bird", Moses' wife
Strong's Concordance
Zipporah

Feminine of tsippowr; bird; Tsipporah, Moses' wife -- Zipporah.

see HEBREW tsippowr

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6855. Tsipporah

צִמֹּרָהproper name, feminine wife of Moses (bird); — Exodus 2:21; 4:25; 18:2; Σεπφωρα (compare LagBN 90 Anm.*).

III. צפר‎ (√ of following; compare Arabic plait, braid, Ethiopic id.; Late Hebrew צְפִירָהֵ‎ = rim of basket).