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 Chronicles 34:14: "the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses."
2 Chronicles 34:15: "Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah"
2 Chronicles 34:15: "And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan."
2 Chronicles 34:16: "And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought"
2 Chronicles 34:18: "Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king."
2 Chronicles 34:21: "and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great"
2 Chronicles 34:21: "after all that is written in this book."
2 Chronicles 34:24: "the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king"
2 Chronicles 34:30: "in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house"
2 Chronicles 34:31: "which are written in this book."
2 Chronicles 35:12: "of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so"
2 Chronicles 35:27: "behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah."
2 Chronicles 36:8: "him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin"
Nehemiah 7:5: "and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found"
Nehemiah 8:1: "the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD"
Nehemiah 8:3: "and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law."
Nehemiah 8:5: "And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was"
Nehemiah 8:8: "So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand"
Nehemiah 8:18: "the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast"
Nehemiah 9:3: "in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth"
Nehemiah 12:23: "of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan"
Nehemiah 13:1: "On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found"
Esther 1:22: "For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province"
Esther 2:23: "on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king."
Esther 3:13: " And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces,"
Esther 6:1: "and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were"
Esther 8:5: "in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son"
Esther 8:10: "it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders"
Esther 9:20: "these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that"
Esther 9:25: "the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised"
Esther 9:30: "And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty"
Esther 9:32: "matters of Purim; and it was written in the book."
Esther 10:2: "not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media"
Job 19:23: "oh that they were printed in a book!"
Job 31:35: "would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book."
Psalms 40:7: "I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of"
Psalms 56:8: "my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?"
Psalms 69:28: "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous."
Psalms 139:16: "did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned,"
Ecclesiastes 12:12: "my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much"
Isaiah 29:11: "of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to"
Isaiah 29:11: "which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this,"
Isaiah 29:12: " And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying,"
Isaiah 29:12: "is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read"
Isaiah 29:12: "saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned."
Isaiah 29:18: "shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity,"
Isaiah 30:8: "a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever"
Isaiah 34:4: "shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf"
Isaiah 34:16: "Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one"
Isaiah 37:14: "And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read"
