STRONGS NUMBER H5613


Word Summary
capher: a secretary, scribe
Original Word: סָפֵר
Transliteration: capher
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-fare')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a secretary, scribe
Meaning: a secretary, scribe
Strong's Concordance
scribe

(Aramaic) from the same as cphar; a scribe (secular or sacred) -- scribe.

see HEBREW cphar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5613. capher

[סָפֵר‎] noun masculine secretary, scribe (ᵑ7‎ Syriac; Biblical Hebrew סֹפֵר‎); — emphatic סָֽפְרָאthe secretary, Persian official, Ezra 4:8-9, 17, 23; construct סָפַרthe scribe 7:12, 21, of Ezra as learned in God's law.