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# שְׁפָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8221

**Shepham** — used 2 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

Shepham [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8221/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁפָם: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8221/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. on E. border of Israel; שׁ׳ Nu 34:10, שְׁפָ֫מָה v 11; 𝔊 Σεπφαμαρ; site unknown.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: Shepham (1); to (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 34:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.10/#tree)

וְהִתְאַוִּיתֶ֥ם לָכֶ֖ם לִגְב֣וּל קֵ֑דְמָה מֵחֲצַ֥ר עֵינָ֖ן חֲצַ֥ר עֵינָ֖ן שְׁפָֽמָה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.crave for yourselves for.\[the\] border of eastward from Hazar Enan to Shepham

*JPS 1917:* And ye shall mark out your line for the east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham;

[Numbers 34:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.11/#tree)

וְיָרַ֨ד הַגְּבֻ֧ל מִשְּׁפָ֛ם הָרִבְלָ֖ה מִקֶּ֣דֶם לָעָ֑יִן וְיָרַ֣ד הַגְּב֔וּל וּמָחָ֛ה עַל־כֶּ֥תֶף יָם־כִּנֶּ֖רֶת קֵֽדְמָה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.go.down the border from Shepham (the) Riblah from.\[the\] east of Ain and it.will.go.down the border and it.will.reach to the.slope of.the.sea of.Kinnereth eastward

*JPS 1917:* and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall strike upon the slope of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8221.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8221/): 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).