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# שִׁפְרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8235

**fairness** — 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

fairness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8235/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁפְרָה: n.f. fairness, clearness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8235/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fairness, clearness, of sky;—abs. שׁ׳ Jb 26:13 by his breath the sky becomes fair(ness), v. especially De Di Bu Du; \> CheJQ 1897, 578 (after 𝔊) בְּרִיחֵי שָׁמַיִם סֹגֵר הוּא.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 26:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.13/#tree)

בְּ֭רוּחוֹ שָׁמַ֣יִם שִׁפְרָ֑ה חֹֽלֲלָ֥ה יָ֝ד֗וֹ נָחָ֥שׁ בָּרִֽיחַ׃

*Word for word:* by wind his \[the\].heavens \[are\].clearness it.pierced hand his \[the\].snake fleeing

*JPS 1917:* By His breath the heavens are serene; His hand hath pierced the slant serpent.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8235/): 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).