Strong's #5617: Cpharvayim (pronounced sef-ar-vah'-yim)

(dual)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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sepharvayim / sephârı̂ym

Sepharvaim = "the two Sipparas"

1) a city in Syria conquered by the king of Assyria

1a) perhaps near the modern ' Mosaib' and on the Euphrates above Babylon

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: of foreign derivation

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

2 Kings 17:24: "men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim,"
2 Kings 17:31: "made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire"
2 Kings 17:31: "to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim."
2 Kings 18:34: "and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered"
2 Kings 19:13: "of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?"
Isaiah 36:19: "and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria"
Isaiah 37:13: "of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?"