Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
Honeycomb, a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (1 Sam. 1:1); called also Zophai (1 Chr. 6:26).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel. (1 Samuel 1:1; 1 Chronicles 6:35) In (1 Chronicles 6:26) he is called Zophai. (honeycomb), The land of, a district at which Saul and his servant arrived after passing through the possessions of Shalisha, of Shalim and of the Benjamites. (1 Samuel 9:5) only. It evidently contained the city in which they encountered Samuel, ver. ” It may perhaps be identified with Soba, a well-known place about seven miles due west of Jerusalem.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)
ZUPH (honeycomb), a Kohathite Levite, an ancestor of Samuel the prophet. 1 Sam 1:1; 1 Chr 6:35.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)
ZUPH (flag, sedge). Deut 1:1, margin. From the Hebrew Suph, signifying a kind of sea-weed, and the Hebrew name for the Red Sea, which see.
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)
that beholds, observes, watches; roof; covering
Schaff's Bible Dictionary
ZUPH, THE LAND OF, the farthest point of the journey of Saul, and where he encountered Samuel at a certain city, the name of which is not given. 1 Sam 9:5-6. The whole of this journey has been a curious puzzle in Scripture topography, "for the starting-point is unknown, the point to which he returned doubtful," and the intermediate places have not been satisfactorily identified. Some resemblance to Zuph was thought to be found in Sola, 7 miles west of Jerusalem and 5 miles southwest of Neby Samwil.
" In other Targums the words "Zophira " and "Mizpeh" are used indiscriminately in speaking of one place, both words being applicable to a "watch-tower" or city in an elevated situation. "Zuph" was, however, also the name of a man, and it is not impossible that the land of Zuph may have been named after him. 1 Sam 1:1. In the first case the city in the land of Zuph would possibly be Shufa: in the second it would be Bethlehem, the home of Zuph. See Mizpeh.