Lexical Definition

‎סֵפֶל‎ çêphel (say'-fel) bowl ^H:N-M
from an unused root meaning to depress

bowl, dish.

• a basin (as deepened out)

1) bowl, basin

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎סֵ֫פֶל‎ noun [masculine] bowl (√ unknown; perhaps foreign word; Assyrian saplu, bowl, basin (DI^{HWB 508} Schr^{COT 2Kgs 9:2}) [occurs as object of tribute or plunder]; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; ᵑ7 ‎סִיפְלָא‎ bowl, basin, Christian-Palestinian Aramaic (wash-)basin Schw^{Idioticon 64}; Arabic bowl, jar Fl^{Levy NHWB iii,320; Kl. Schr.ii. 556 f.} is perhaps loan-word Frä^{67 f.}); — absolute ‎׳‎‎מְלֹא הַסּ‎ Judg 6:38 for drinking, construct ‎סֵפֶל אַדִּירִים‎ Judg 5:25 a bowl of (fit for) nobles, huge bowl (GFM).

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