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# שֻׁפִּים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8206

**Shuppim** — used 3 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

Shuppim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8206/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֻׁפִּים³: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8206/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. שׁ׳ 1 Ch 7:15, Μαμφειν, A Σεφφειμ, 𝔊L Σαφιν, appar. = שֻׁפִּם v 12, Σαπφειν, 𝔊L Σαφαν (cf. מֻפִּים, שְׁפוּפָם). שֻׁפִּים doorkeeper, 1 Ch 26:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Shuppim (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 7:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.12/#tree)

וְשֻׁפִּ֤ם וְחֻפִּם֙ בְּנֵ֣י עִ֔יר חֻשִׁ֖ם בְּנֵ֥י אַחֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* and Shuppim and Huppim \[were\].the.sons of.Ir Hushim \[were\].the.sons of.Aher

*JPS 1917:* Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the son of another.

[1 Chronicles 26:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.16/#tree)

לְשֻׁפִּ֤ים וּלְחֹסָה֙ לַֽמַּעֲרָ֔ב עִ֚ם שַׁ֣עַר שַׁלֶּ֔כֶת בַּֽמְסִלָּ֖ה הָעוֹלָ֑ה מִשְׁמָ֖ר לְעֻמַּ֥ת מִשְׁמָֽר׃

*Word for word:* to Shuppim and to Hosah to the west beside the.gate of.Shalleketh on the highway \[which\].goes up guard alongside guard

*JPS 1917:* To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goeth up, ward against ward.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8206.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8206/): 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).