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Zipporah

American  
[zi-pawr-uh, -pohr-uh, zip-er-uh] / zɪˈpɔr ə, -ˈpoʊr ə, ˈzɪp ər ə /
Douay Bible, Sephora

noun

  1. the daughter of Jethro and the wife of Moses. Exodus 2:21.


Etymology

Origin of Zipporah

From Hebrew Ṣipporāh, possibly “sparrow ”

Example Sentences

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Zipporah was mother to Noah, Theo, Teddy, Isaac, Hugo, Ezra and baby Cooper, who was born last year.

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"Zipporah was the centre of my life and the centre of seven wee boys, and to lose her... to leave this emptiness behind, it leaves us all absolutely broken, and I'm lost," Mr Branagan told BBC Good Morning Ulster.

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He said Zipporah was an incredibly caring person, who had dropped out of school in lower sixth to care for her mother who had a neurological disease.

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Twenty one weeks on from her death and the family have not got any answers as to the cause of Zipporah's death, after an inconclusive post-mortem examination.

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Bernard Branagan said his beloved wife Zipporah, who died suddenly in April in her 30s, was "the most encouraging person that you ever come across".

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