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# שְׁפוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8194

**cream** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cream [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8194/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁפוֹת: n.f. cream [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8194/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (Köii. 1. 186) n.f. dub., perhaps cream (as skimmed off? cf. WetzstZAW iii (1883), 276 f., who connects with Arabic شِفَايَةٌ cream, and this with √ شفا take off the top (but שׁ = ش ?); EV cheese (after 𝔖 𝔗, cf. ARSKEB 3091));—cstr. שְׁפוֹת בָּקָר 2 S 17:29 cream of the herd (+ דְּבַשׁ וְחֶמְאָה וְצֹאן), cf. Now Bu; 𝔊L HPS calves.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cheese (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 17:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.29/#tree)

וּדְבַ֣שׁ וְחֶמְאָ֗ה וְצֹאן֙ וּשְׁפ֣וֹת בָּקָ֔ר הִגִּ֧ישׁוּ לְדָוִ֛ד וְלָעָ֥ם אֲשֶׁר־אִתּ֖וֹ לֶאֱכ֑וֹל כִּ֣י אָמְר֔וּ הָעָ֗ם רָעֵ֛ב וְעָיֵ֥ף וְצָמֵ֖א בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* and honey and curd\[s\] and sheep and cheese of.\[the\].herd they.brought for David and for the people which \[was\].with him to eat (dm) they.said the people \[is\].hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness

*JPS 1917:* and honey, and curd, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat; for they said: 'The people is hungry, and faint, and thirsty, in the wilderness.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8194.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8194/): 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).