Zuph standard
> (Hebrew verse 20) = "Zophai" of 1Ch 6:26 (11), an ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel.
Where is Zuph in the Bible?
Zuph was a region located in the hill country of Ephraim in ancient Israel. It is primarily known from the account in 1 Samuel 9, where King Saul and his servant traveled through the land of Zuph searching for Saul's father's lost donkeys. The region was also associated with the family line of the prophet Samuel, as Zuph appears to have been connected to Samuel's ancestry through Elkanah and the genealogies of 1 Chronicles. The exact modern location remains uncertain, but it was situated within the territory of Ephraim in central Israel.
Zuph
ISBE 1915 (Public Domain)> (Hebrew verse 20) = "Zophai" of 1Ch 6:26 (11), an ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel. But Budde and Wellhausen take it to be an adjective, and so read tsuphi, in 1Sa 1:1 b: "Tohu a Zuphite, an Ephraimite." It should probably be read also in 1:1a: "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 Soup; Lucian has Souph in 1Sa 1:1 b; 1Ch 6:26 (11); Codex Vaticanus has Souphei; Codex Alexandrinus and Lucian have Souphi; 6:35 (20), Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus have Souph; Lucian has Souphi; and the Kethibh has tsiph.
(2) The Septuagint's Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus have Seiph; Lucian has Sipha, "the land of Zuph," a district in Benjamin, near its northern border (1Sa 9:5).
David Francis Roberts