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# שֶׁפֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8233

**beauty** — 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

beauty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8233/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׁ֫פֶר: beauty, goodliness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8233/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. m. beauty, goodliness;—abs. אִמְרֵי־שָׁ֑פֶר Gn 49:21 (v. אֹמֶר, אָמִיר).

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: of beauty (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 49:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.21/#tree)

נַפְתָּלִ֖י אַיָּלָ֣ה שְׁלֻחָ֑ה הַנֹּתֵ֖ן אִמְרֵי־שָֽׁפֶר׃ס

*Word for word:* Naphtali \[is\].a.doe let.loose \[which\] utters words of.beauty

*JPS 1917:* Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8233.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8233/): 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).