{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5612",
  "lemma": "סֵפֶר",
  "transliteration": "çêpher",
  "definition": "properly, writing (the art or a document); by implication, a book",
  "kjv": "bill, book, evidence, [idiom] learn(-ed) (-ing), letter, register, scroll.",
  "occurrences": 186,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H9",
      "lemma": "אֲבֵדָה",
      "transliteration": "ʼăbêdâh",
      "meaning": "concrete, something lost",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H9"
    },
    {
      "id": "H5608",
      "lemma": "סָפַר",
      "transliteration": "çâphar",
      "meaning": "to score with a mark as a tally or record",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H5608"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "סֵ֫פֶר 185 n.m. missive, document, writing, book",
    "1. missive",
    "2. legal document",
    "3. book or scroll, in which something is written to preserve it for future use",
    "סִפְרָה n.f",
    "[סִפְרָה] n.f. book;—sf. ψ 56:9"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 5:1",
      "text": "This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/5?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 17:14",
      "text": "The LORD said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 24:7",
      "text": "He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “We will do all that the LORD…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/24?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 32:32",
      "text": "Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/32?v=32"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 32:33",
      "text": "The LORD said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot him out of my book.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/32?v=33"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 5:23",
      "text": "“‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/5?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 21:14",
      "text": "Therefore it is said in The Book of the Wars of the LORD, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 17:18",
      "text": "It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/17?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 24:1",
      "text": "When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/24?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 24:3",
      "text": "If the latter husband hates her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/24?v=3"
    }
  ],
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