צִפֹּרָה Tzipporah
Often spelled Zipporah in English. Every verse in which this name stands — 3 places, 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.
Daughter of Yitro, priest of Midian, who became Moshe's wife and bore him two sons. On the way back to Egypt she circumcised their son to avert a divine threat against Moshe (Exodus 2, 4, 18).
וַיּוֹאֶל מֹשֶׁה לָשֶׁבֶת אֶת־הָאִישׁ וַיִּתֵּן אֶת־צִפֹּרָה בִתּוֹ לְמֹשֶֽׁה
And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
וַתִּקַּח צִפֹּרָה צֹר וַתִּכְרֹת אֶת־עָרְלַת בְּנָהּ וַתַּגַּע לְרַגְלָיו וַתֹּאמֶר כִּי חֲתַן־דָּמִים אַתָּה לִֽי
Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said: ‘Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me.’
וַיִּקַּח יִתְרוֹ חֹתֵן מֹשֶׁה אֶת־צִפֹּרָה אֵשֶׁת מֹשֶׁה אַחַר שִׁלּוּחֶֽיהָ
And Jethro, Moses’father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’wife, after he had sent her away,
Quick answers
What is the gematria of Tzipporah?
Tzipporah (Zipporah) — צפרה in Hebrew — has a gematria of 375 in the standard method.
How many times is Tzipporah named in the Tanakh?
3 times, first at Exodus 2:21.
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