Definition

a scribe (secular or sacred)

Etymology

(Aramaic) from the same as H5609 (סְפַר);

Word family

• סְפַר çᵉphar

How the KJV renders it

• scribe

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.