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# שְׁפִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8205

**bareness** — used 9 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

bareness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8205/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁפִי: n.m. bareness, smooth or bare height [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8205/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. bareness, smooth or bare (treeless) height;— bareness, Jb 33:21 Kt (v. √). bare place, height: שֶׁ֑פִי Nu 23:3 (E), i.e. an outlook-point; pl. שְׁפָיִים Is 41:18; 49:9; Je 3:21, שְׁפָיִם 3:2; 4:11 (‖ מִדְבָּר), 7:29, 12:12 (בַּמִּדְבָּר), 14:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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: bare heights (6); \[the\] bare heights (2); a bare height (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 14:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.6/#tree)

וּפְרָאִים֙ עָמְד֣וּ עַל־שְׁפָיִ֔ם שָׁאֲפ֥וּ ר֖וּחַ כַּתַּנִּ֑ים כָּל֥וּ עֵינֵיהֶ֖ם כִּי־אֵ֥ין עֵֽשֶׂב׃

*Word for word:* and wild.donkeys they.have.stood on \[the\].bare.heights they.have.panted.for breath like (the) jackals they.have.failed eyes their (dm) there.\[is\].not vegetation

*JPS 1917:* And the wild asses stand on the high hills, they gasp for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

[Jeremiah 3:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.21/#tree)

ק֚וֹל עַל־שְׁפָיִ֣ים נִשְׁמָ֔ע בְּכִ֥י תַחֲנוּנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כִּ֤י הֶעֱוּוּ֙ אֶת־דַּרְכָּ֔ם שָׁכְח֖וּ אֶת־יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* a.sound on bare.heights \[is\].heard the.weeping of.the.supplications of.the.people of.Israel (dm) they.have.perverted (et) way their they.have.forgotten (et) Yahweh God their

*JPS 1917:* Hark! upon the high hills is heard the suppliant weeping of the children of Israel; for that they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8205.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8205/): 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).