Bible Person
Meaning: bird; sparrow; crown; desert · Male · 7 cross references
Zippor is the father of Balak king of Moab and is remembered chiefly through that relationship. His name remains attached to the Moabite resistance that meets Israel near the end of the wilderness journey. First appears in Num 22:2.1
AI summary: Zippor matters because the cross references preserve him as the named paternal source of Balak's royal house. That repeated designation gives continuity and legitimacy to Balak's role in the Balaam narrative and later retrospection. Zippor himself does not act on stage, but his name stays attached to the Moabite king at a critical moment of conflict with Israel. Taken together, the material presents Zippor as a remembered dynastic father within the Moabite challenge to Israel.1
Central Figure
Zippor
Meaning: bird; sparrow; crown; desert
A little bird, the father of Balak, king of Moab (Num.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.