Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H5612

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Original: ספרה ספר

Transliteration: sepher siphrah (sêpher siphrâh)

Phonetic: say'-fer

BDB Definition:

book (noun feminine)
missive, document, writing, book (noun masculine)
1. missive
  1. letter (of instruction), written order, commission, request, written decree
2. legal document, certificate of divorce, deed of purchase, indictment, sign
3. book, scroll
  1. book of prophecies
  2. genealogical register
  3. law-book
  4. book (of poems)
  5. book (of kings)
  6. books of the canon, scripture
  7. record book (of God)
4. book-learning, writing
  1. be able to read (after verb 'to know')

Origin: from H5608

TWOT entry: 1540a,1540b

Strong's Definition: From H5608; properly writing (the art or a document); by implication a book: - bill, book, evidence, X learn [-ed] (-ing), letter, register, scroll.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (184x)

A Book (2x)

A Letter (3x)

A Register (1x)

Also Letters (1x)

And A Book (1x)

And In Thy Book (1x)

And It Came To Pass, When The Letter (1x)

And The Book (1x)

And The Letters (1x)

And This Evidence (1x)

As A Scroll (1x)

Book (1x)

Books (1x)

By Books (1x)

By Letters (1x)

Evidences (1x)

Her A Bill (3x)

In A Book (8x)

In All Learning (1x)

In The Book (69x)

In The Letter (1x)

In The Letters (2x)

In This Book (9x)

It In A Book (1x)

Letters (8x)

Me A Book (2x)

Me, I Pray Thee, Out Of Thy Book (1x)

Not In Thy Book (1x)

Now As Soon As This Letter (1x)

Now When This Letter (1x)

Of A Book (4x)

Of My Book (1x)

Of The Book (10x)

Of The Letter (1x)

Of This Book (2x)

Out Of The Book (2x)

The Bill (1x)

The Book (15x)

The Evidence (4x)

The Learning (1x)

The Letter (4x)

The Letters (3x)

These Evidences (1x)

This Book (3x)

This Evidence (1x)

This Letter (1x)

To Him That Is Not Learned (1x)

Unto The Book (1x)

Unto Thee In A Book (1x)

All Occurrences

2 Chronicles 34:18

Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.(i)

2 Chronicles 34:21

Go, enquire of the Lord for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord , to do after all that is written in this book.

2 Chronicles 34:24

Thus saith the Lord , Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

2 Chronicles 34:30

And the king went up into the house of the Lord , and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord .(n)

2 Chronicles 34:31

And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord , to walk after the Lord , and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.

2 Chronicles 35:12

And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the Lord , as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.

2 Chronicles 35:27

And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

2 Chronicles 36:8

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.(c)

Nehemiah 7:5

And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,

Nehemiah 8:1

And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.

Nehemiah 8:3

And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.(b)

Nehemiah 8:5

And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:(d)

Nehemiah 8:8

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

Nehemiah 8:18

Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.(h)

Nehemiah 9:3

And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the Lord their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the Lord their God.

Nehemiah 12:23

The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

Nehemiah 13:1

On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;(a)

(b)

Esther 1:22

For he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.(o)

Esther 2:23

And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.

Esther 3:13

And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.

Esther 6:1

On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.(a)

Esther 8:5

And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king’s provinces:(b)

(c)

Esther 8:10

And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus’ name, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:

Esther 9:20

And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,

Esther 9:25

But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.(g)

Esther 9:30

And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,

Esther 9:32

And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.

Esther 10:2

And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?(a)

Job 19:23

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!(g)

Job 31:35

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.(l)

Psalm 40:7

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

Psalm 56:8

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Psalm 69:28

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H5612

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

Thayers Information

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H5612