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Strong's #6828: tsaphown (pronounced tsaw-fone')

or tsaphon {tsaw-fone'}; from 6845; properly, hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown):--north(-ern, side, -ward, wind).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tsâphôn

1) north (of direction), northward

1a) north

1b) northward

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H6845



Usage:

This word is used 153 times:

1 Chronicles 26:17: "Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four"
2 Chronicles 4:4: "twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west,"
Job 26:7: "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing."
Job 37:22: "Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty."
Psalms 48:2: "is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King."
Psalms 89:12: " The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name."
Psalms 107:3: "them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north,"
Proverbs 25:23: " The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue."
Ecclesiastes 1:6: "the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind"
Ecclesiastes 11:3: "fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth,"
Song of Solomon 4:16: "Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out."
Isaiah 14:13: "I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:"
Isaiah 14:31: "art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone"
Isaiah 41:25: "I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call"
Isaiah 43:6: "I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons"
Isaiah 49:12: "from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west;"
Jeremiah 1:13: "pot; and the face thereof is toward the north."
Jeremiah 1:14: "Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon"
Jeremiah 1:15: "all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set"
Jeremiah 3:12: "these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel,"
Jeremiah 3:18: "and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that"
Jeremiah 4:6: "I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction."
Jeremiah 6:1: "Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction."
Jeremiah 6:22: "Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation"
Jeremiah 10:22: "is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make"
Jeremiah 13:20: "your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given"
Jeremiah 15:12: "Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?"
Jeremiah 16:15: "the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all"
Jeremiah 23:8: "the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all"
Jeremiah 25:9: "all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king"
Jeremiah 25:26: "And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another,"
Jeremiah 31:8: "Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts"
Jeremiah 46:6: "escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates."
Jeremiah 46:10: "for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by"
Jeremiah 46:20: "but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north."
Jeremiah 46:24: "she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north."
Jeremiah 47:2: "Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood,"
Jeremiah 50:3: "For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make"
Jeremiah 50:9: "an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence"
Jeremiah 50:41: "Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many"
Jeremiah 51:48: "for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD."
Ezekiel 1:4: "a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire"
Ezekiel 8:3: "the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat"
Ezekiel 8:5: "thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north,"
Ezekiel 8:5: "So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate"
Ezekiel 8:5: "the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this"
Ezekiel 8:14: "house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women"
Ezekiel 9:2: "of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon"
Ezekiel 20:47: "and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned"
Ezekiel 21:4: "against all flesh from the south to the north:"









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