Strong's #5612: cepher (pronounced say'-fer)
or (feminine) ciphrah (Psa. 56:8 (9)) {sif-raw'}; from 5608; properly, writing (the art or a document); by implication, a book:--bill, book, evidence, X learn(-ed) (-ing), letter, register, scroll.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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sêpher / siphrâh
1) book (noun feminine)
2) missive, document, writing, book (noun masculine)
2a) missive
2a1) letter (of instruction), written order, commission, request, written decree
2b) legal document, certificate of divorce, deed of purchase, indictment, sign
2c) book, scroll
2c1) book of prophecies
2c2) genealogical register
2c3) law-book
2c4) book (of poems)
2c5) book (of kings)
2c6) books of the canon, scripture
2c7) record book (of God)
2d) book-learning, writing
2d1) be able to read (after verb ' to know' )
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: from H5608
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1540a, 1540b
Usage:
This word is used 186 times:
2 Kings 8:23: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 10:1: "in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers"
2 Kings 10:2: "Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with"
2 Kings 10:6: "Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye"
2 Kings 10:7: "And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons,"
2 Kings 10:34: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
2 Kings 12:19: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 13:8: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
2 Kings 13:12: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
2 Kings 14:6: "he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD"
2 Kings 14:15: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
2 Kings 14:18: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 14:28: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
2 Kings 15:6: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 15:11: "behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel."
2 Kings 15:15: "behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel."
2 Kings 15:21: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
2 Kings 15:26: "behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel."
2 Kings 15:31: "behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel."
2 Kings 15:36: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 16:19: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 19:14: "And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read"
2 Kings 20:12: "king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for"
2 Kings 20:20: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 21:17: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 21:25: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 22:8: "Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah"
2 Kings 22:8: "And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read"
2 Kings 22:10: "Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king."
2 Kings 22:11: "had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes."
2 Kings 22:13: "concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath"
2 Kings 22:13: "hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written"
2 Kings 22:16: "thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:"
2 Kings 23:2: "in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house"
2 Kings 23:3: "that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant."
2 Kings 23:21: "your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant."
2 Kings 23:24: "of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found"
2 Kings 23:28: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 24:5: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
1 Chronicles 9:1: "and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away"
2 Chronicles 16:11: "lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel."
2 Chronicles 17:9: "And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all"
2 Chronicles 20:34: "who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel."
2 Chronicles 24:27: "they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned"
2 Chronicles 25:4: "but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded,"
2 Chronicles 25:26: "are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?"
2 Chronicles 27:7: "lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah."
2 Chronicles 28:26: "behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel."
2 Chronicles 32:17: "He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against"
2 Chronicles 32:32: "the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel."
