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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:

Ezekiel 26:7: "of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen,"
Ezekiel 32:30: "There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down"
Ezekiel 38:6: "his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many"
Ezekiel 38:15: "And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many"
Ezekiel 39:2: "And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon"
Ezekiel 40:19: "without, a hundred cubits eastward and northward."
Ezekiel 40:20: "that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth"
Ezekiel 40:23: "court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate"
Ezekiel 40:35: "And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;"
Ezekiel 40:40: "without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables;"
Ezekiel 40:44: "court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward"
Ezekiel 40:44: "of the east gate having the prospect toward the north."
Ezekiel 40:46: "whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar:"
Ezekiel 41:11: "one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth"
Ezekiel 42:1: "court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that"
Ezekiel 42:1: "was before the building toward the north."
Ezekiel 42:2: "Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty"
Ezekiel 42:4: "of one cubit; and their doors toward the north."
Ezekiel 42:11: "of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all"
Ezekiel 42:13: "Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before"
Ezekiel 42:17: "He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed"
Ezekiel 44:4: "Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked,"
Ezekiel 46:9: "in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way"
Ezekiel 46:9: "gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way"
Ezekiel 46:19: "of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides"
Ezekiel 47:2: "Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto"
Ezekiel 47:15: "And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea,"
Ezekiel 47:17: "Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north"
Ezekiel 47:17: "the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side."
Ezekiel 47:17: "northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side."
Ezekiel 48:1: "Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast"
Ezekiel 48:1: "to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath;"
Ezekiel 48:10: "shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west"
Ezekiel 48:16: "And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred,"
Ezekiel 48:17: "And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred"
Ezekiel 48:30: "And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand"
Ezekiel 48:31: "of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one"
Daniel 8:4: "the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts"
Daniel 11:6: "shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain"
Daniel 11:7: "an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:"
Daniel 11:8: "shall continue more years than the king of the north."
Daniel 11:11: "with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude"
Daniel 11:13: "For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former,"
Daniel 11:15: "So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities:"
Daniel 11:40: "push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen,"
Daniel 11:44: "But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great"
Amos 8:12: "from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east,"
Zephaniah 2:13: "And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make"
Zechariah 2:6: "ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for"
Zechariah 6:6: "which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after"









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