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# שָׁפַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8239

**set** — used 5 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

set [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8239/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁפַת: vb.denom. set [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8239/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. set (on the fire) (NH; v. √; Sab. שפת = bestow, Sab DenkmNo. 8, i. 15);— Imv. ms. שְׁפֹת הַסִּיר 2 K 4:38 set on the pot, so Ez 24:3, cf. v 3 (del. Co, not Krae; Toy allows); later more gen. (subj. י׳): Impf. 2 ms. sf. תִּשְׁפְּתֵנִי ψ 22:16 in the dust of death thou settest me. ordain, establish, 2 ms. תִּשְׁפֹּת שָׁלוֹם לָ֑גוּ Is 26:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: put on (3); you (1); you will establish (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 26:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.12/#tree)

יְהוָ֕ה תִּשְׁפֹּ֥ת שָׁל֖וֹם לָ֑נוּ כִּ֛י גַּ֥ם כָּֽל־מַעֲשֵׂ֖ינוּ פָּעַ֥לְתָּ לָּֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* O.Yahweh you.will.establish peace for us (dm) also all works our you.have.done for us

*JPS 1917:* LORD, Thou wilt establish peace for us; for Thou hast indeed wrought all our works for us.

[Psalms 22:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.16/#tree)

יָ֘בֵ֤שׁ כַּחֶ֨רֶשׂ ׀ כֹּחִ֗י וּ֭לְשׁוֹנִימֻדְבָּ֣ק מַלְקוֹחָ֑י וְֽלַעֲפַר־מָ֥וֶת תִּשְׁפְּתֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* it.has.dried.up like (the) earthenware strength my and tongue my \[has.been\].made.to.cling.to jaws my and to.\[the\] dust of.death you put.me

*JPS 1917:* My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my throat; and Thou layest me in the dust of death.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8239.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8239/): 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).