צֹפִים Tsôphîym — watchers
Translated in the KJV as Zophim.
plural of active participle of H6822; watchers; Tsophim, a place East of the Jordan.
Tsôphîym in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
צֹפִ֔ים Num 23:14 Participle (active), masculine plural
And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›