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Strong H68282 sensesצָפוֹן

north · Zaphon

Transliteration
tsâphôn tsâphôn
Pronunciation
{tsaw-fone'} tsaw-fone'

The 2 senses of Strong H6828

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H6828 appears in 141 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. northH6828Gnorth (of direction), northward138 verses · 24 books
  2. ZaphonH6828HA city in Gad and a term for the north3 verses · Judges, Psalms, Isaiah

General definition

From H6845; properly {hidden} that {is} dark; used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown): - north ({-ern} {side} {-ward} wind).

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • north100
  • northward24
  • side11
  • be4
  • unto3
  • lo1
  • northern1
  • thereof1
  • wind1

First verses

  1. Genesis 13:14
    And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
  2. Genesis 28:14
    And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
  3. Exodus 26:20
    And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
  4. Exodus 26:35
    And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
  5. Exodus 27:11
    And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
  6. Exodus 36:25
    And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
  7. Exodus 38:11
    And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
  8. Exodus 40:22
    And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.
  9. Leviticus 1:11
    And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the Lord: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.
  10. Numbers 2:25
    The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
  11. Numbers 3:35
    And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.
  12. Numbers 34:7
    And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:
  13. Numbers 34:9
    And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar–enan: this shall be your north border.
  14. Numbers 35:5
    And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
  15. Deuteronomy 2:3
    Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
  16. Deuteronomy 3:27
    Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
  17. Joshua 8:11
    And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.
  18. Joshua 8:13
    And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
  19. Joshua 11:2
    And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,
  20. Joshua 13:3
    From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites: