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zuf (צוּף, cuÌ„ph, “honeycombâ€):
(1) According to ; (Hebrew verse 20) = “Zophai†of (11), an ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel. But Budde and Wellhausen take it to be an adjective, and so read צוּפי, cuÌ„phı̄, in : “Tohu a Zuphite, an Ephraimite.†It should probably be read also in : “Now there was a certain man of the Ramathites, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim,†as the Hebrew construction in the first part of the verse is otherwise unnatural. The Septuagint's Codex Alexandrinus has ΣουÌÏ€, SouÌp; Lucian has ΣουÌφ, SouÌph in ; (11); Codex Vaticanus has ΣουφειÌ, SoupheıÌ; Codex Alexandrinus and Lucian have ΣουφιÌ, SouphıÌ; (20), Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus have ΣουÌφ, SouÌph; Lucian has ΣουφιÌ, SouphıÌ; and the Kethı̄bh has ציף, cı̄ph.
(2) The Septuagint's Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus have ΣειÌφ, SeıÌph; Lucian has ΣιφαÌ, SiphaÌ, “the land of Zuph,†a district in Benjamin, near its northern border ().