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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Zippor

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: Yes
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: Yes
  • Included in Websters: No
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Zippor

A little bird, the father of Balak, king of Moab (Numbers 22:2, 4).


Hitchcock's Names Dictionary
Zippor

bird; sparrow; crown; desert


Naves Topical Index
Zippor

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Zippor

(sparrow), father of Balak king of Moab. (Numbers 22:2,4,10,16; 23:18; Joshua 24:9; Judges 11:25) Whether he was the "former king of Moab" alluded to in (Numbers 21:26) we are not told. (B.C. 1451.)


Easton's Bible Dictionary
Zipporah

A female bird. Reuel's daughter, who became the wife of Moses (Exodus 2:21). In consequence of the event recorded in Exodus 4:24-26, she and her two sons, Gershom and Eliezer, when so far on the way with Moses toward Egypt, were sent back by him to her own kinsfolk, the Midianites, with whom they sojourned till Moses afterwards joined them (18:2-6).


Hitchcock's Names Dictionary
Zipporah

beauty; trumpet; mourning


Naves Topical Index
Zipporah

Wife of Moses
Exodus 2:16-22

Reproaches Moses
Exodus 4:25-26

Separates from Moses, is brought again to him by her father
Exodus 18:2-6

Miriam and Aaron upbraid Moses concerning Zipporah
Numbers 12:1


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Zipporah, or Zipporah

daughter of Reuel or Jethro, the priest of Midian, wife of Moses and mother of his two sons Gershom and Eliezer. (Exodus 2:21; 4:25; 18:2) comp. Exodus 18:6 (B.C. 1530.) The only incident recorded in her life is that of the circumcision of Gershom. (Exodus 4:24-28)