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# שָׁפִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8208

**Saphir** — 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

Saphir [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8208/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁפִיר: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8208/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in Philist. plain, Mi 1:11 (= שָׁמִיר Jos 15:48?); 𝔊 καλῶς (!).

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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Micah 1:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.11/#tree)

עִבְרִ֥י לָכֶ֛ם יוֹשֶׁ֥בֶת שָׁפִ֖יר עֶרְיָה־בֹ֑שֶׁת לֹ֤א יָֽצְאָה֙ יוֹשֶׁ֣בֶת צַֽאֲנָ֔ן מִסְפַּד֙ בֵּ֣ית הָאֵ֔צֶל בֵּ֣ית הָאֵ֔צֶל יִקַּ֥ח מִכֶּ֖ם עֶמְדָּתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* pass.on (for yourselves O.inhabitant\[s\] of.Shaphir bareness shame not she.came.forth the.inhabitant\[s\] of.Zaanan the.lament of Beth.Ezel it.will.take from you ground its.standing

*JPS 1917:* Pass ye away, O inhabitant of Saphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you the standing-place thereof.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8208.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8208/): 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).