Sapphira Brantley
character from "A woman called Fancy" by Frank Yerby
Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert
main character in "Sapphira and the Slave Girl" by Willa Cather
From the Greek name Sappheire
which was from the Greek word sappheiros meaning "blue stone" or "lapis lazuli," ultimately derived from a Semitic source (compare Hebrew sappir "sapphire"). Alternatively Sapphira may be a Greco,Latin form of the Hebrew name Zipporah.
