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# שֶׁפֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8234

**Shapper** — used 2 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

Shapper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8234/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׁ֫פֶר²: n.pr.mont. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8234/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.mont. as a station in wilderness;—הַר־שָׁ֑פֶר Nu 33:23, 24 (P); Σαφαρ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Shapher (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 33:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.23/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מִקְּהֵלָ֑תָה וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּהַר־שָֽׁפֶר׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Kehelathah and they.encamped at the.mountain of.Shapher

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Kehelah, and pitched in mount Shepher.

[Numbers 33:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.24/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מֵֽהַר־שָׁ֑פֶר וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בַּחֲרָדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from the.mountain of.Shapher and they.encamped at Haradah

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from mount Shepher, and pitched in Haradah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8234.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8234/): 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).