Zipporah in the Bible

Meaning: beauty; trumpet; mourning

Exact Match

But Zipporah took a flint [knife], and she cut off the foreskin of her son, and she touched his feet, and she said, "Yes, you [are] a bridegroom of blood to me."

Verse ConceptsFlintForeskinsKnivesSharpnessCovered With BloodSevering Body PartsCare Of FeetWood And Stone

So He let Moses alone [to recover]. At that time Zipporah said, “You are a husband of blood”—because of the circumcision.

Verse ConceptsCovered With Blood

And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took Zipporah the wife of Moses after her sending away,

Verse ConceptsLeaving Parents For Spouse

Thematic Bible



Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and threw it at Moses' feet. She said: You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me. So He let him alone. At that time she said: You are a bridegroom of blood, because of the circumcision.


The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. Then the shepherds came and drove them away. Moses stood up and helped them water their flock. When they returned to Reuel their father, he said, Why have you come back so soon today? read more.
They said: An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds. He drew water for us and watered the flock. He asked his daughters: Where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread. Moses was content to live with the man. He gave Moses his daughter Zipporah. She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom. For he said: I have been a stranger in a strange land.


Moses sent his wife Zipporah and her two sons to stay with Jethro. Jethro welcomed them. Moses was still a foreigner in Midian when his first son was born. Moses said: I will name him Gershom. When his second son was born, Moses said: I will name him Eliezer, because the God my father worshiped has saved me from the king of Egypt. read more.
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law brought Moses' sons and wife to Moses in the desert. He was camped near the mountain of God. Jethro sent word to Moses: I am coming to visit you. I am bringing your wife and her two sons.


Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because he was married to a Cushite woman from Sudan.


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