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צְפִּיָּה

tse.phiy.yah

watch

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Strong’s H6836Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

watchtower1

In the text

Lamentations 4:17בְּצִפִּיָּתֵנוּ
All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[צְפִּיָּה] n.f. outlook-post (?);—sf. La 4:17

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.