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Saphat

Saphat sa'-fat: (1) A and Fritzsche, Saphat; omitted in Codex Vaticanus (and Swete); Babylonian margin Asaph: The eponym of a family which returned with Zerubbabel (Esdras 5:9) = "Shephatiah" in Ezr 2:4, Neh 7...

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Saphat sa'-fat:

(1) A and Fritzsche, Saphat; omitted in Codex Vaticanus (and Swete); Babylonian margin Asaph: The eponym of a family which returned with Zerubbabel (Esdras 5:9) = "Shephatiah" in Ezr 2:4, Neh 7:9.

(2) Codex Alexandrinus Saphat; Codex Vaticanus, Swete, and Fritzsche, Saphag; the King James Version Sabat: One of the families of "the sons of the servants of Solomon" who returned with Zerubbabel (Esdras 5:34); wanting in the parallel Ezr 2:57, Neh 7:59.

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