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Job 37:22
“Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
צָפוֹןtsâphôwn · tsaw-fone'
H6828 · Hebrew
H6828 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as aquarter (gloomy and unknown)
- Derivation
- or צָפֹן; from H6845 (צָפַן);
- KJV renderings
- north(-ern, side, -ward, wind).
- Grammar
- מִ֭ — preposition
- צָּפוֹן — common noun, feminine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 153 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 13:14Genesis 28:14Exodus 26:20Exodus 26:35Exodus 27:11
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read צָפוֹן here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.