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Zipporah

Time-period: ❹ Mose-David (1400 – 1000 f.Kr.)
Age: -
Relationships: Moses (marriage)
children (2): Gershom, Eliezer



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Usage in the Bible


Zipporah H6855
צִפֹּרָה (Tsipporah)
3 times in OT
Total    3 times

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    • Zipporah

      Moses

      order of birth not available
      Moses

      • Gershom

        Zipporah's firstborn

        Gershom
      • Eliezer

        Zipporah's child nr: 2

        Eliezer

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  • Man

    wife

  • Woman
  • Is part of the ancestry of Christ
  • Ruler/leader
  • multiple people




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Exo 2:21
  Interlinear
[They found Moses, and he accepted the invitation.] Moses was willing (agreed) to stay with the priest.
Moses [eventually] married Jethro's daughter Zipporah.
Exo 4:25
  Interlinear
Then Zipporah took a sharp flint and cut off the foreskin of her son and touched him [Gershom or Moses] with it down to his foot and said, "You are my blood bridegroom." [The Hebrew word for "stroked" is the same word used in Ex. 12:22 where the Israelites "stroke" the blood of the lamb on the doorposts so that the firstborn will not die.]
Exo 18:2
  Interlinear
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken care of Moses' wife Zipporah after Moses sent her away