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# שָׁפַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8231

**be beautiful** — 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

be beautiful [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8231/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁפַר: vb. be beautiful, fair, comely [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8231/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be beautiful, fair, comely (Arabic سَفَرَ remove veil (of women), shine; Aramaic שְׁפַר be pleasing (v. Dn 6:2), ܫܦܰܪ be beautiful, bright, pleasing, ܫܰܦܺܝܪ beautiful);— Pf. 3 fs. שָֽׁפְרָה עָלָ֑י (Aramaic) ψ 16:6 (the) heritage is beautiful for (pleasing to) me (v. עַל II. 8).

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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it is beautiful (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 16:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.16.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.16.6/#tree)

חֲבָלִ֣ים נָֽפְלוּ־לִ֭י בַּנְּעִמִ֑ים אַף־נַ֝חֲלָ֗ת שָֽׁפְרָ֥ה עָלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* boundary.lines they.have.fallen to me in.(the) pleasant \[places\] also an.inheritance it.is.beautiful on me

*JPS 1917:* The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8231.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8231/): 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).