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# שָׁפָן

Biblical Hebrew

**Shaphan** — used 30 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

Shaphan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5e4_5b8_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁפָן²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5e4_5b8_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Σαφ(φ)αν: secretary (הַסֹּפֵר) under Josiah 2 K 22:3, 8(×2), 9, 10(×2), 12, 14; 2 Ch 34:8, 15(×2), 16, 18(×2), 20. father of אֲחִיקָם, contemp. of 1 (improb. = 1): 2 K 22:12; 25:22; Je 26:24; 39:14; 40:5, 9, 11; 41:2; 43:6; 2 Ch 34:20. father of אֶלְעָשָׂה Je 29:3, perhaps = 2. father of גְּמַרְיָ֫הוּ 36:10 (called הַסֹּפֵר), v 11, 12, perhaps = 1. father of יַאֲזַנְיָ֫הוּ Ez 8:11, possibly = 1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 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: Shaphan (15); of Shaphan (15).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 36:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.11/#tree)

וַ֠יִּשְׁמַ֗ע מִכָ֨יְהוּ בֶן־גְּמַרְיָ֧הוּ בֶן־שָׁפָ֛ן אֶת־כָּל־דִּבְרֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה מֵעַ֥ל הַסֵּֽפֶר׃

*Word for word:* and he.heard Micaiah the.son of.Gemariah the.son of.Shaphan (et) all the.words of.Yahweh from on the scroll

*JPS 1917:* And when Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,

[Jeremiah 26:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.26.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.26.24/#tree)

אַ֗ךְ יַ֚ד אֲחִיקָ֣ם בֶּן־שָׁפָ֔ן הָיְתָ֖ה אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָ֑הוּ לְבִלְתִּ֛י תֵּת־אֹת֥וֹ בְיַד־הָעָ֖ם לַהֲמִיתֽוֹ׃פ

*Word for word:* nevertheless the.hand of.Ahikam the.son of.Shaphan it.was with Jeremiah to not to.give him in the.hand of the.people to put him.to.death

*JPS 1917:* Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5e4_5b8_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5e4_5b8_5df/): 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).