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:
Isaiah 39:1: "king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard"
Isaiah 50:1: "saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away?"
Jeremiah 3:8: "I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister"
Jeremiah 25:13: "all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against"
Jeremiah 29:1: "Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem"
Jeremiah 29:25: "Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all"
Jeremiah 29:29: "read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet."
Jeremiah 30:2: "I have spoken unto thee in a book."
Jeremiah 32:10: "And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances."
Jeremiah 32:11: "So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom,"
Jeremiah 32:12: "And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah,"
Jeremiah 32:12: "son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews"
Jeremiah 32:14: "Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase,"
Jeremiah 32:14: "evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence"
Jeremiah 32:14: "of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel,"
Jeremiah 32:16: "Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son"
Jeremiah 32:44: "fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land"
Jeremiah 36:2: "Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words"
Jeremiah 36:4: "he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book."
Jeremiah 36:8: "the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house."
Jeremiah 36:10: "Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD,"
Jeremiah 36:11: "of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words"
Jeremiah 36:13: "he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people."
Jeremiah 36:18: "and I wrote them with ink in the book."
Jeremiah 36:32: "of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king"
Jeremiah 45:1: "these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth"
Jeremiah 51:60: "wrote in a book all the evil that"
Jeremiah 51:63: "of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast"
Ezekiel 2:9: "unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book"
Daniel 1:4: "as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans."
Daniel 1:17: "them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all"
Daniel 9:2: "I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word"
Daniel 12:1: "shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book."
Daniel 12:4: "shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many"
Nahum 1:1: "The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite."
Malachi 3:16: "and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared"
