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# שְׁפֵלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8219

**lowland** — used 20 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

lowland [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8219/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁפֵלָה: n.f. lowland [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8219/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. lowland;—always abs. שׁ׳ c. art., except sf. שְׁפֵלָתֹה Jos 11:16;—lowland: usually term. techn. of strip W. of Judaean mts. (on exact limits v. GASmGeogr. 201 ff.; Expos. Dec. 1896, 404 f. BuhlGeogr. 104 DrHast.DB iii. 892 f.): almost always disting. from הָהָר and הַנֶּגֶב, sometimes from הָעֲרָבָה, in Dt 1:7; Jos 9:1 (RD) also from חוֹף הַיָּם, cf. Jos 10:40; 12:8 (both RD), Ju 1:9 (perhaps RD, cf. Bu GFM), Jos 15:33 (P), Je 17:26; 32:44; 33:13; Ob 19; Zc 7:7 2 Ch 26:10; 28:18 (disting. from הַמִּישׁוֹר, plateau E. of Jordan); region of sycomores 1 K 10:27 = 2 Ch 1:15; 9:27; 1 Ch 27:28. of lowland (near coast) N. of Carmel Jos 11:2; W. of mts. of Ephr. v 16 (both RD).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: Shephelah (17); the Shephelah (3).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.33/#tree)

בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֑ה אֶשְׁתָּא֥וֹל וְצָרְעָ֖ה וְאַשְׁנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* in the Shephelah Eshtaol and Zorah and Ashnah

*JPS 1917:* In the Lowland: Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah;

[Judges 1:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.9/#tree)

וְאַחַ֗ר יָֽרְדוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה לְהִלָּחֵ֖ם בַּֽכְּנַעֲנִ֑י יוֹשֵׁ֣ב הָהָ֔ר וְהַנֶּ֖גֶב וְהַשְּׁפֵלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and after they.went.down the.descendants of.Judah to fight against the Canaanite\[s\] \[who.was\].dwelling the.hill country and the Negev and the Shephelah

*JPS 1917:* And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites that dwelt in the hill-country, and in the South, and in the Lowland.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8219.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8219/): 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).