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Zuph, also called Zophai, was an Ephraimite Levite, an ancestor of Samuel the prophet.
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Also known as Ziph · Zophai
Zuph/Zophai Zuph, also called Zophai in 1Ch.6.26, was a Levite of the Kohathite clan. He was an ancestor of Elkanah, the father of the prophet Samuel (1Sa.1.1). In the genealogy of the Kohathites, he is listed as the son of Elkanah and father of Toah (1Ch.6.35). Zuph lived in the hill country of Ephraim, where his descendant Samuel was born (1Sa.1.1).
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Honeycomb, a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (1 Sam. 1:1); called also Zophai (1 Chr. 6:26).
a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel. (1 Samuel 1:1; 1 Chronicles 6:35) In (1 Chronicles 6:26) he is called Zophai. (honeycomb), The land of, a district at which Saul and his servant arrived after passing through the possessions of Shalisha, of Shalim and of the Benjamites. (1 Samuel 9:5) only. It evidently contained the city in which they encountered Samuel, ver. 6, and that again was certainly not far from the “tomb of Rachel.” It may perhaps be identified with Soba, a well-known place about seven miles due west of Jerusalem.
ZUPH (honeycomb), a Kohathite Levite, an ancestor of Samuel the prophet. 1 Sam 1:1; 1 Chr 6:35.
ZUPH (flag, sedge). Deut 1:1, margin. From the Hebrew Suph, signifying a kind of sea-weed, and the Hebrew name for the Red Sea, which see.
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3 verses in 2 books · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H6689
Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son,
the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
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