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# שָׁפָט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8202

**Shaphat** — used 8 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

Shaphat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8202/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁפָט: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8202/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (he hath judged);—usually Σαφατ\[θ\]: father of Elisha 1 K 19:16, 19; 2 K 3:11; 6:31. prince of Simeon Nu 13:5. grandson of Zerub. 1 Ch 3:22. Gaddite chief 5:12 (Σαβατ, Σαφαμ \[ν\]). herdsman of David 27:29 (Σωφαν, A Σωφατ, 𝔊L Σαφατ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shaphat (4); of Shaphat (4).

## In the verses

[Numbers 13:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.5/#tree)

לְמַטֵּ֣ה שִׁמְע֔וֹן שָׁפָ֖ט בֶּן־חוֹרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* for the.tribe of.Simeon Shaphat the.son of.Hori

*JPS 1917:* Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.

[1 Chronicles 5:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.12/#tree)

יוֹאֵ֣ל הָרֹ֔אשׁ וְשָׁפָ֖ם הַמִּשְׁנֶ֑ה וְיַעְנַ֥י וְשָׁפָ֖ט בַּבָּשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* Joel the chief and Shapham the second and Janai and Shaphat \[were\].in (the) Bashan

*JPS 1917:* Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8202.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8202/): 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).