Zipporah in the Bible

Meaning: beauty; trumpet; mourning

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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.

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

Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,

Verse ConceptsLeaving Parents For Spouse

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and Zipporah taketh a flint, and cutteth off the foreskin of her son, and causeth it to touch his feet, and saith, 'Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me;' and He desisteth from him: then she said, 'A bridegroom of blood,' in reference to the circumcision.


And to a priest of Midian are seven daughters, and they come and draw, and fill the troughs, to water the flock of their father, and the shepherds come and drive them away, and Moses ariseth, and saveth them, and watereth their flock. And they come in to Reuel their father, and he saith, 'Wherefore have ye hastened to come in to-day?' read more.
and they say, 'A man, an Egyptian, hath delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also hath diligently drawn for us, and watereth the flock;' and he saith unto his daughters, 'And where is he? why is this? -- ye left the man! call for him, and he doth eat bread.' And Moses is willing to dwell with the man, and he giveth Zipporah his daughter to Moses, and she beareth a son, and he calleth his name Gershom, for he said, 'A sojourner I have been in a strange land.'


and Jethro, father-in-law of Moses, taketh Zipporah, wife of Moses, besides her parents, and her two sons, of whom the name of the one is Gershom, for he said, 'a sojourner I have been in a strange land:' and the name of the other is Eliezer, for, 'the God of my father is for my help, and doth deliver me from the sword of Pharaoh.' read more.
And Jethro, father-in-law of Moses, cometh, and his sons, and his wife, unto Moses, unto the wilderness where he is encamping -- the mount of God; and he saith unto Moses, 'I, thy father-in-law, Jethro, am coming unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.'


And Miriam speaketh -- Aaron also -- against Moses concerning the circumstance of the Cushite woman whom he had taken: for a Cushite woman he had taken;


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