Every Name in Tanakh

סַף Saph

Every verse in which this name stands — 1 place, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

PersonGematria 140×1 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

A Philistine. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at 2 Samuel 21:18.

2 Samuel 21:18שמואל ב כא:יח

וַֽיְהִי אַֽחֲרֵי־כֵן וַתְּהִי־עוֹד הַמִּלְחָמָה בְּגוֹב עִם־פְּלִשְׁתִּים אָז הִכָּה סִבְּכַי הַחֻשָׁתִי אֶת־סַף אֲשֶׁר בִּילִדֵי הָרָפָֽה

And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Saph?

Saph — סף in Hebrew — has a gematria of 140 in the standard method.

How many times is Saph named in the Tanakh?

1 time, first at 2 Samuel 21:18.

A spelling is not a name. The written word סף stands 4 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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