King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H6846
Transliteration: Tsephanyah or Tsephanyahu
Phonetic Spelling: (tsef-an-yaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "Yah has treasured", four Israelites
Meaning: Zephaniah -- "Yah has treasured", four Israelites
Word Summary
Tsephanyah or Tsephanyahu: "Yah has treasured", four Israelites
Original Word: צְפַנְיָהTransliteration: Tsephanyah or Tsephanyahu
Phonetic Spelling: (tsef-an-yaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "Yah has treasured", four Israelites
Meaning: Zephaniah -- "Yah has treasured", four Israelites
Strong's Concordance
Zephaniah Or Tsphanyahuw {tsef-an-yaw'-hoo}; from tsaphan and Yahh; Jah has secreted; Tsephanjah, the name of four Israelites -- Zephaniah.
see HEBREW tsaphan
see HEBREW Yahh
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6846. Tsephanyah
or Tsephanyahu צְפַנְיָה(וּׅ proper name, masculine Σοφονιας (׳י hath treasured; Old Hebrew צפניהו, Phoenician צפנבעל); —
1 priest, יָה- Jeremiah 21:1; 22:25, 29; 52:24 = יָהוּ- 2 Kings 25:18 (ᵐ5L Σαφανιας), Jeremiah 37:3. Elsewhere יָה-:
2 the prophet Zephaniah 1:1.
3 a Judaean Zechariah 6:10, 14.
4 ancestor of Heman 1 Chronicles 6:21 (Σαφανιας; = אוּרִיאֵל v.6:9).