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# שִׁפְרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8236

**Shiphrah** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Shiphrah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8236/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁפְרָה²: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8236/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. Hebrew midwife, Ex 1:15 (E); Σεπφωρα (cf. LagBN 90).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] Shiphrah (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 1:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.15/#tree)

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם לַֽמְיַלְּדֹ֖ת הָֽעִבְרִיֹּ֑ת אֲשֶׁ֨ר שֵׁ֤ם הָֽאַחַת֙ שִׁפְרָ֔ה וְשֵׁ֥ם הַשֵּׁנִ֖ית פּוּעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the.king of.Egypt to the midwives (the) Hebrew who the.name of the.one \[was\].Shiphrah and the.name of the.second \[was\].Puah

*JPS 1917:* And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8236.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8236/): 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).