Dictionaries :: Zuph

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Zuph:

honeycomb, a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (1Sa 1:1); called also Zophai (1Ch 6:26).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Zuph:

that beholds, observes, watches; roof; covering

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Zuph:

zuf (tsuph, "honeycomb"):

(1) According to 1Sa 1:1 b; 1Ch 6:35 (Hebrew verse 20) = "Zophai" of 1Ch 6:26 (11), an ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel. But Budde and Wellhausen take it to be an adjective, and so read tsuphi, in 1Sa 1:1 b: "Tohu a Zuphite, an Ephraimite." It should probably be read also in 1:1a: "Now there was a certain man of the Ramathites, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim," as the Hebrew construction in the first part of the verse is otherwise unnatural. The Septuagint's Codex Alexandrinus has Soup; Lucian has Souph in 1Sa 1:1 b; 1Ch 6:26 (11); Codex Vaticanus has Souphei; Codex Alexandrinus and Lucian have Souphi; 6:35 (20), Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus have Souph; Lucian has Souphi; and the Kethibh has tsiph.

(2) The Septuagint's Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus have Seiph; Lucian has Sipha, "the land of Zuph," a district in Benjamin, near its northern border (1Sa 9:5).

Written by David Francis Roberts

Nave's Topical Bible

Zuph: 1. A Kohathite

1Sa 1:1; 1Ch 6:35

Zuph: 2. A District Northwest of Jerusalem

1Sa 9:5

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Zuph:

(honeycomb) (1.) 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, verse 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.

(2.) 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. SEE [ZOPHAI].