Zuph
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Honeycomb, a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (1 Sam 1:1); called also Zophai (1 Chr 6:26).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
zuf (tsuph, "honeycomb"):
(1) According to 1 Sam 1:1 b; 1 Chr 6:35 (Hebrew verse 20) = "Zophai" of 1 Chr 6:26 (11), an ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel. But Budde and Wellhausen take it to be an adjective, and so read tsuphi, in 1 Sam 1:1 b: "Tohu a Zuphite, an Ephraimite." It should probably be read also in 1:1a: "Now there was a certain man of the Ramathites, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim," as the Hebrew construction in the first part of the verse is otherwise unnatural. The Septuagint's Codex Alexandrinus has Soup; Lucian has Souph in 1 Sam 1:1 b; 1 Chr 6:26 (11); Codex Vaticanus has Souphei; Codex Alexandrinus and Lucian have Souphi; 6:35 (20), Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus have Souph; Lucian has Souphi; and the Kethibh has tsiph.
(2) The Septuagint's Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus have Seiph; Lucian has Sipha, "the land of Zuph," a district in Benjamin, near its northern border (1 Sam 9:5).
David Francis Roberts
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