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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Sephar


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Sephar Sephar

Sephar is a town or location which is mentioned in reference to the boundary of the sons of Joktan. The Joktanites are the last mentioned Shemite generation before the tower of Babel is built. Joktan's brother Peleg becomes the ancestor of Abraham.

The name Sephar comes from the verb Sephar (sapar 1540) meaning count, or any general mathematical activity. Some derivatives: Sephar (seper 1540a), writing, book, sipra (sipra 1540b), book, Sephar (soper 1540c), scribe, Sephar (separ 1540d), census, sipra (seporah 1540e), number, mispar (sapar 1540f), number.

The derivative Sephar (separ 1540d), census, is identical to the name Sephar and occurs only in 2 Chr 2:17. There Solomon numbers the foreigners who help built the Temple, following the census satan had made David take (1 Chr 21:1). After this census, and after the penalty, the location of the Temple was designated and foreigners were set to hew out the stones for the Temple (1 Chr 22:2).

The name Sephar means Counting or Calculating.





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