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Easton's Bible Dictionary
a female bird. Reuel's daughter, who became the wife
of Moses ( Exodus
2:21 ). In consequence of the event recorded in Exodus
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 ( Exodus
18:2 - 6
).
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
beauty; trumpet; mourning
Smith's Bible Dictionary
Daughter of Reuel or Jethro, the priest of Midian, wife
of Moses and mother of his two sons Gershom and Eliezer. ( Exodus
2:21 ; 4:25
; 18:2
) comp. Exodus
18:6 (B.C. 1530.) The only incident recorded in her life is that of the circumcision
of Gershom. ( Exodus
4:24 - 28
)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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 (Exodus
2:21 , 22
; 4:25
, 26
; 18:2
- 6).
Whether or not Zipporah was the "Cushite woman" (Numbers
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 (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
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