Topic
Zipporah
9 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 2:21Easton · ISBE
And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
- Exodus 4:25ISBE · Nave Reproaches Moses
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
- Exodus 4:26ISBE · Nave Reproaches Moses
So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
- Exodus 18:2–6ISBE · Nave Separates from Moses, is brought again to him by her father
Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back, And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God…
- Numbers 12:1ISBE · Nave Miriam and Aaron upbraid Moses concerning
And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
- Exodus 2:16–22Nave Wife of Moses
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. And when they came to…
- Exodus 2:22ISBE
And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
- Exodus 4:24–26Easton
¶ And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. So he let him go:…
- Habakkuk 3:7ISBE
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 3 references
A female bird. Reuel’s daughter, who became the wife of Moses (Ex. 2:21). In consequence of the event recorded in Ex. 4:24-26, she and her two sons, Gershom and Eliezer, when so far on the way with Moses toward Egypt, were sent back by him to her own kinsfolk, the Midianites, with whom they sojourned till Moses afterwards joined them (18:2-6).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 7 references
zi-po'-ra, zip'-o-ra (tsipporah; Sepphora): The Midianite wife of Moses, daughter of Jethro, also called Hobab, and probably grand-daughter of Reuel, a priest of Midian at the time Moses fled from Egypt, later succeeded at his death by Jethro, or Hobab (Ex 2:21,22; 4:25,26; 18:2-6).
Whether or not Zipporah was the "Cushite woman" (Nu 12:1) is a much-mooted question. There is little ground for anything more than speculation on the subject. The use of the words, "Cushite woman" in the mouth of Aaron and Miriam may have been merely a description of Zipporah and intended to be opprobrious, or they may have been ethnic in character and intended to denote another woman whom Moses had married, as suggested by Ewald (Gesch. des Volkes Israel, II, 252). The former view seems the more probable. The association of Midian and Cushan by Habakkuk (3:7) more than 700 years afterward may hardly be adduced to prove like close relationship between these peoples in the days of Moses.
M. G. Kyle
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 5 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → Wife of Moses Ex 2:16-22
- → Reproaches Moses Ex 4:25,26
- → Separates from Moses, is brought again to him by her father Ex 18:2-6
- → Miriam and Aaron upbraid Moses concerning Nu 12:1
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.