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# שָׁפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8192

**sweep bare** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sweep bare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8192/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁפָה: vb. sweep bare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8192/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. sweep bare (Arabic سَفَا (ى), raise and carry off dust \[v. סָפָה\], أَسْفَى of horse, scanty in hair of forelock; NH Pi. plane off; Aramaic ܫܦܳܐ Pt. pass. level (Is 40:4 = מִישׁוֹר), smooth, limpid, ܫܰܦܺܝ make level, smooth (and deriv.));— be wind-swept, bare; Pt. הַר־נִשְׁפֶּה Is 13:2 a bare mt.; Pf. consec. וְשֻׁפּוּ עַצְמֹתָיו Jb 33:21 Qr his bones are laid bare (so lean is he; Kt וּשְׁפִי bareness are his bones).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: swept bare (1); they are laid bare (1).

## In the verses

[Job 33:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.21/#tree)

יִ֣כֶל בְּשָׂר֣וֹ מֵרֹ֑אִי וְשֻׁפּ֥וּ עַ֝צְמוֹתָ֗יו לֹ֣א רֻאּֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* it.wastes.away flesh his from sight and they.are.laid.bare bones his \[which\].not they.were.seen

*JPS 1917:* His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones corrode to unsightliness.

[Isaiah 13:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.2/#tree)

עַ֤ל הַר־נִשְׁפֶּה֙ שְֽׂאוּ־נֵ֔ס הָרִ֥ימוּ ק֖וֹל לָהֶ֑ם הָנִ֣יפוּ יָ֔ד וְיָבֹ֖אוּ פִּתְחֵ֥י נְדִיבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* on a.mountain swept.bare lift.up a.standard lift.up a.voice to them wave a.hand so that.they.may.go \[the\].doors of.noble.\[people\]

*JPS 1917:* Set ye up an ensign upon the high mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8192.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8192/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).