Strong's Concordance tsaphar: perhaps to depart Original Word: צָפַרPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: tsaphar Phonetic Spelling: (tsaw-far') Short Definition: depart Brown-Driver-Briggs I. [צָפַר] verb dubious; — Imperfect3masculine singular וְיִצְמֹּר מֵהַר הַגִּלְעָד יָשֹׁב Judges 7:3 let him return and (Vrss) let him depart, AV depart early (as Ki, from Aramaic צפרא,  morning, improbable), wholly uncertain; Gr וְיַעֲבִר; on difficulty of ׳מֵהַר הַגּ see גִּלְעָד 2 and GFM, who conjectures וְיִצְרְפֵם גִּדְעֹן and so Gideson put them to test (compare Judges 7:4), so Bu Now (compare DrHast. ii. 176 n). II. צפר (√ of following; compare Arabic Strong's Exhaustive Concordance depart early A primitive root; to skip about, i.e. Return -- depart early. Forms and Transliterations וְיִצְפֹּ֖ר ויצפר veyitzPor wə·yiṣ·pōr wəyiṣpōrLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Hebrew 68521 Occurrence wə·yiṣ·pōr — 1 Occ. Judges 7:3 HEB: וְחָרֵ֔ד יָשֹׁ֥ב וְיִצְפֹּ֖ר מֵהַ֣ר הַגִּלְעָ֑ד NAS: let him return and depart from Mount KJV: let him return and depart early from mount INT: and afraid return early mount Gilead |
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peep, twitter whistle (usually of bird; onomatopoetic); Assyrian ƒapâru is cry, howl: Late Hebrew צִמּוֺר = Biblical Hebrew, so Phoenician צפר ᵑ7 צִמַּר, Syriac 
, Mandean ציפאר, ציפרא NöM § 102; also Arabic 
sparrow, etc., and (perhaps) Assyrian iƒƒuru, bird).