Zuph

zuf (צוּף, cūph, “honeycomb”):

(1) A Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (1 Samuel 1:1); called also Zophai (1 Chronicles 6:26). According to 1 Samuel 1:1; 1 Chronicles 6:35 (Hebrew verse 20) = “Zophai” of 1 Chronicles 6:26 (11), an ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel. But Budde and Wellhausen take it to be an adjective, and so read צוּפי, cūphī, in 1 Samuel 1:1 : “Tohu a Zuphite, an Ephraimite.” It should probably be read also in 1 Samuel 1:1 : “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 Σούπ, Soúp; Lucian has Σούφ, Soúph in 1 Samuel 1:1; 1 Chronicles 6:26 (11); Codex Vaticanus has Σουφεί, Soupheí; Codex Alexandrinus and Lucian have Σουφί, Souphí; 1 Chronicles 6:35 (20), Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus have Σούφ, Soúph; Lucian has Σουφί, Souphí; and the Kethībh has ציף, cīph.

(2) The Septuagint's Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus have Σείφ, Seíph; Lucian has Σιφά, Siphá, “the land of Zuph,” a district in Benjamin, near its northern border (1 Samuel 9:5).