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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #8236 - שִׁפְרָה

Transliteration

Shiphrâh

Phonetics

shif-raw'

Origin

the same as (H8235)

Parts of Speech

proper feminine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Shiphrah = "fair"
1. one of the two Hebrew midwives who were ordered by Pharaoh to kill all the male children born to the Hebrews but who disobeyed

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Exodus 1

BSB (1)

Exodus 1

CSB (1)

Exodus 1

ESV (1)

Exodus 1

KJV (1)

Exodus 1

LEB (1)

Exodus 1

LSB (1)

Exodus 1

N95 (1)

Exodus 1

NAS (1)

Exodus 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Exodus 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

II. שִׁפְרָה proper name, feminine Hebrew midwife, Exodus 1:15 1(E); Σεπφωα (compare Lag^{BN 90}).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

שִׁפְרָה f.

(1) brightness, beauty. Here, apparently, we should refer with Jo. Simonis, who has been followed by Ewald (Gr. page 92), Job 26:13, בְּרוּחוֹ שָׁמַיִם שִׁפְרָה “by his (God’s) Spirit the heavens were made brightness,” i.e. splendid, most splendid. Several interpreters have supposed שִׁפְרָה to be for שִׁפְּרָה (to make beautiful, to adorn, sc. with stars and constellations), so put that two constructions (רוּחוֹ שׁ׳ שִׁפְּרָה and בְּרוּחוֹ שָׁמַיִם שִׁפַּר) are confused (Vulg. spiritus ejus ornavit cœlos), but Dag. forte necessarium is scarcely ever found to be omitted in the letters בגדכפת.

(2) [Shiphrah], pr.n. f., Exodus 1:15.

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List of Word Forms

שִׁפְרָ֔ה שפרה shifRah