Limitless Word
צָפָהtsâphâh/tsaw-faw'/
HebrewH682236 occurrences (KJV)

properly, to lean forward, i.e. to peer into the distance; by implication, to observe, await

KJV renders it: behold, espy, look up (well), wait for, (keep the) watch(-man).

Where it appears(showing the first 34 of 36)

  • Gen 31:49and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
  • 1 Sam 4:13When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching; for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.
  • 1 Sam 14:16The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude melted away and scattered.
  • 2 Sam 13:34But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him.
  • 2 Sam 18:24Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
  • 2 Sam 18:25The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” He came closer and closer.
  • 2 Sam 18:26The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the porter, and said, “Behold, a man running alone!” The king said, “He also brings news.”
  • 2 Sam 18:27The watchman said, “I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” The king said, “He is a good man, and comes with good news.”
  • 2 Kgs 9:17Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”
  • 2 Kgs 9:18So one went on horseback to meet him, and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!” The watchman said, “The messenger came to them, but he isn’t coming back.”
  • 2 Kgs 9:20The watchman said, “He came to them, and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”
  • Job 15:22He doesn’t believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
  • Ps 5:3Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
  • Ps 37:32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
  • Ps 66:7He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah.
  • Prov 15:3Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
  • Prov 31:27She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.
  • Song 7:4Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
  • Isa 21:5They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
  • Isa 21:6For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
  • Isa 52:8Your watchmen lift up their voice, together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when Yahweh returns to Zion.
  • Isa 56:10His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
  • Jer 6:17I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’
  • Jer 48:19Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, ‘What has been done?’
  • Lam 4:17Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
  • Ezek 3:17“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
  • Ezek 33:2Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
  • Ezek 33:6But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
  • Ezek 33:7So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
  • Hos 9:8A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
  • Mic 7:4The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.
  • Mic 7:7But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
  • Nah 2:1He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!
  • Hab 2:1I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.