Strong's #6689: Tsuwph (pronounced tsoof)

or Tsowphay {tso-fah'-ee}; or Tsiyph {tseef}; from 6688; honey-comb; Tsuph or Tsophai or Tsiph, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine:--Zophai, Zuph.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tsûph / tsôphay / tsı̂yph

Zuph or Zophai = "honeycomb"

1) a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (noun proper masculine)

2) a district northwest of Jerusalem where Saul encountered Samuel (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

1 Samuel 1:1: "of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite."
1 Samuel 9:5: "And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that"
1 Chronicles 6:26: "As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,"
1 Chronicles 6:35: "The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,"