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# שִׁפְעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8229

**abundance** — used 6 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

abundance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8229/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁפְעָה: n.f. abundance, quantity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8229/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. abundance, quantity;—appar. abs. שִׁפְעַת 2 K 9:17, a multitude (of men), (Bur שִׁפְעָה, or שִׁפְעַת אֲנָשִׁים as Klo Benz al.; \> 𝔊B Kit עָפָר); cstr. שִׁפְעַת יֵהוּא v 17 Jehu’s multitude; cstr., of horses Ez 26:10, camels Is 60:6; of waters Jb 22:11; 38:34.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: an abundance (3); a crowd (1); the abundance (1).

## In the verses

[Job 22:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.11/#tree)

אוֹ־חֹ֥שֶׁךְ לֹֽא־תִרְאֶ֑ה וְֽשִׁפְעַת־מַ֥יִם תְּכַסֶּֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* or darkness not you.will.see and an.abundance of.water it will.cover.you

*JPS 1917:* Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and abundance of waters cover thee.

[Job 38:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.34/#tree)

הֲתָרִ֣ים לָעָ֣ב קוֹלֶ֑ךָ וְֽשִׁפְעַת־מַ֥יִם תְּכַסֶּֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* will you.lift.up? to the cloud\[s\] voice your and an.abundance of.water it will.cover.you

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8229.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8229/): 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).