se.pher H5612

סֵ֫פֶר (se.pher) means “scroll: document” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

סֵ֫פֶר Hebrew · H5612 186 tagged occurrences in 174 verses

Pronunciation guide: say'-fer Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5612A

סֵ֫פֶר · se.pher · scroll: document

: document 1) missive, document, writing, book 1a) missive 1a1) letter (of instruction), written order, commission, request, written decree 1b) legal document, certificate of divorce, deed of purchase, indictment, sign 1c) book, scroll 1c1) book of prophecies 1c2) genealogical register 1c3) law-book 1c4) book (of poems) 1c5) book (of kings) 1c6) books of the canon, scripture 1c7) record book (of God) 1d) book-learning, writing 1d1) be able to read (after verb 'to know')

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TBESH · H5612B

סִפְרָה · siph.rah · scroll

book

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TBESH · H5612H

סֵ֫פֶר · se.pher · scroll: book

: book 1) missive, document, writing, book 1a) missive 1a1) letter (of instruction), written order, commission, request, written decree 1b) legal document, certificate of divorce, deed of purchase, indictment, sign 1c) book, scroll 1c1) book of prophecies 1c2) genealogical register 1c3) law-book 1c4) book (of poems) 1c5) book (of kings) 1c6) books of the canon, scripture 1c7) record book (of God) 1d) book-learning, writing 1d1) be able to read (after verb 'to know')

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TBESH · H5612I

סֵ֫פֶר · se.pher · scroll: read

: read 1) missive, document, writing, book 1a) missive 1a1) letter (of instruction), written order, commission, request, written decree 1b) legal document, certificate of divorce, deed of purchase, indictment, sign 1c) book, scroll 1c1) book of prophecies 1c2) genealogical register 1c3) law-book 1c4) book (of poems) 1c5) book (of kings) 1c6) books of the canon, scripture 1c7) record book (of God) 1d) book-learning, writing 1d1) be able to read (after verb 'to know')

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or (feminine) סִפְרָה; (Psalm 56:8 (H9 (אֲבֵדָה))), from H5608 (סָפַר); properly, writing (the art or a document); by implication, a book

KJV glosses: bill, book, evidence, [idiom] learn(-ed) (-ing), letter, register, scroll.

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How translators render H5612

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the book	62
book	15
in the book	11
letters	9
of the book	6
letter	5
a book	3
a certificate	3
a scroll	3
from the book	3
from the scroll	3
on a scroll	3
the deed	3
the letter	3
the scroll	3
a letter	2
in a book	2
in the letters	2
it	2
of the scroll	2
scroll	2
agreement	1
an indictment	1
and deeds	1
and literature	1
and the letter	1
and the letters	1
books	1
certificate	1
copy	1
deed	1
deeds	1
from the sacred books	1
in a scroll	1
in the letter	1
in your book	1
into the record	1
is the book	1
like a scroll	1
of literature	1
of my book	1
of the letter	1
or if the scroll	1
out of the book	1
register	1
so a scroll	1
the documents	1
the letters	1
them	1
this deed	1
when the letter	1
with the document	1
your book	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
in the book	69
the book	15
of the book	10
in this book	9
in a book	8
letters	8
of a book	4
the evidence	4
the letter	4
a letter	3
her a bill	3
the letters	3
this book	3
a book	2
in the letters	2
me a book	2
of this book	2
out of the book	2
a register	1
also letters	1
and a book	1
and in thy book	1
and it came to pass when the letter	1
and the book	1
and the letters	1
and this evidence	1
as a scroll	1
book	1
books	1
by books	1
by letters	1
evidences	1
in all learning	1
in the letter	1
it in a book	1
me i pray thee out of thy book	1
not in thy book	1
now as soon as this letter	1
now when this letter	1
of my book	1
of the letter	1
the bill	1
the learning	1
these evidences	1
this evidence	1
this letter	1
to him that is not learned	1
unto the book	1
unto thee in a book	1

Verses containing H5612

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2 Chronicles 34:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD by doing all that is written in this book.”
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2 Chronicles 34:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah,
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2 Chronicles 34:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people great and small—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 34:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
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2 Chronicles 35:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They set aside the burnt offerings to be given to the divisions of the families of the people to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And they did the same with the bulls.
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2 Chronicles 35:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
his acts from beginning to end—they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
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2 Chronicles 36:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations he committed, and all that was found against him, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
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Nehemiah 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:
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Nehemiah 8:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.
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Nehemiah 8:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.
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Nehemiah 8:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Ezra opened the book in full view of all the people, since he was standing above them all, and as he opened it, all the people stood up.
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Nehemiah 8:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they read from the Book of the Law of God, explaining it and giving insight, so that the people could understand what was being read.
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Nehemiah 8:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.
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Nehemiah 9:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
While they stood in their places, they read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day, and they spent another quarter of the day in confession and worship of the LORD their God.
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Nehemiah 12:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As for the descendants of Levi, the family heads up to the days of Johanan son of Eliashib were recorded in the Book of the Chronicles.
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Nehemiah 13:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
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Esther 1:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He sent letters to all the provinces of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be master of his own household.
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Esther 2:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After the report had been investigated and verified, both officials were hanged on the gallows. And all this was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king.
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Esther 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
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Esther 6:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
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Esther 8:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
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Esther 8:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares.
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Esther 9:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,
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Esther 9:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
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Esther 9:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Mordecai sent letters with words of peace and truth to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Xerxes,
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Esther 9:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Esther’s decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, which were written into the record.
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Esther 10:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?
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Job 19:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
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Job 31:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
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Psalms 40:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll:
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Source alternate reference: 40.8
Psalms 56:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle—are they not in Your book?
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Source alternate reference: 56.9
Psalms 69:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
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Source alternate reference: 69.29
Psalms 139:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
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Ecclesiastes 12:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And by these, my son, be further warned: There is no end to the making of many books, and much study wearies the body.
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Isaiah 29:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
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.”
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Isaiah 29:12 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”
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Isaiah 29:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
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Isaiah 30:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
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Isaiah 34:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
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Isaiah 34:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.
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Isaiah 37:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.
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Isaiah 39:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness and recovery.
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Isaiah 50:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
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Jeremiah 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
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Jeremiah 25:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
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Jeremiah 29:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the others Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
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Jeremiah 29:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:
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Jeremiah 29:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
(Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)
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Jeremiah 30:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
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Jeremiah 32:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
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