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# שָׁפָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8227

**rock-badger** — used 4 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

rock-badger [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8227/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁפָן: n.m. rock-badger [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8227/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 11:5 rock-badger, hyrax syriacus, AV RV coney;—abs. שׁ׳ Dt 14:7 = Lv 11:5 (P; unclean animal); living in rocks, pl. שְׁפַנִּים ψ 104:18 Pr 30:26.—Vid. RobBR iii. 66, 387 TrNHB 75; FFP 1, and Pl. 1 Dr Dt PostHast. DB coney McLean-ShipleyEncy. Bib. id..

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: badger (2); badgers (1); rock badgers (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 104:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.18/#tree)

הָרִ֣ים הַ֭גְּבֹהִים לַיְּעֵלִ֑ים סְ֝לָעִ֗ים מַחְסֶ֥ה לַֽשְׁפַנִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].mountains (the) high \[belong\].to the.mountain goats crags \[are\].a.refuge for the.rock badgers

*JPS 1917:* The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the conies.

[Proverbs 30:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.26/#tree)

שְׁ֭פַנִּים עַ֣ם לֹא־עָצ֑וּם וַיָּשִׂ֖ימוּ בַסֶּ֣לַע בֵּיתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* rock.badgers \[are\].a.people not mighty and they.made in the rock\[s\] home their

*JPS 1917:* The rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the crags;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8227.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8227/): 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).