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סֵפֶר

se.pher

scroll: document

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Strong’s H5612aNoun, masculine185 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the scroll of63

scroll29

the book of16

letters15

book9

letter9

a scroll8

the document of7

In the text

Deuteronomy 28:61בְּסֵפֶר
The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
1 Kings 11:41סֵפֶר
As for the rest of the acts of Solomon—all that he did, as well as his wisdom—are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?
2 Kings 1:18סֵפֶר
As for the rest of the acts of Ahaziah, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
2 Chronicles 16:11סֵפֶר
Now the acts of Asa, from beginning to end, are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
Isaiah 29:11הַסֵּפֶר
And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”
Jeremiah 36:8בַסֵּפֶר
So Baruch son of Neriah did everything that Jeremiah the prophet had commanded him. In the house of the LORD he read the words of the LORD from the scroll.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

סֵ֫פֶר 185 n.m. missive, document, writing, book

1. missive

2. legal document

3. book or scroll, in which something is written to preserve it for future use

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.