Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to depart
Usage: 1) (Qal) to go early, depart early 1a) meaning uncertain
Tsaphar means “depart early” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6852 צָּפַר (tsaphar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsaphar (tsaw-far') v. 1. to skip about, i.e. return [a primitive root] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include return. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
tsaphar (tsaw-far') v. 1. to skip about, i.e. return [a primitive root] KJV: depart early.
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to depart
Usage: 1) (Qal) to go early, depart early 1a) meaning uncertain
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tsaphar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H6852.
Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6852, grouped by book.
Tsaphar (Strong's H6852) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "depart early". tsaphar (tsaw-far') v. 1. to skip about, i.e. return [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H6852 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6852 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as return. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.