שָׁפָן

Biblical Hebrew

Shaphan — used 30 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

Shaphan tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁפָן²: n.pr.m. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr.m. Σαφ(φ)αν: secretary (הַסֹּפֵר) under Josiah 2 K 22:3, 8(×2), 9, 10(×2), 12, 14; 2 Ch 34:8, 15(×2), 16, 18(×2), 20. father of אֲחִיקָם, contemp. of 1 (improb. = 1): 2 K 22:12; 25:22; Je 26:24; 39:14; 40:5, 9, 11; 41:2; 43:6; 2 Ch 34:20. father of אֶלְעָשָׂה Je 29:3, perhaps = 2. father of גְּמַרְיָ֫הוּ 36:10 (called הַסֹּפֵר), v 11, 12, perhaps = 1. father of יַאֲזַנְיָ֫הוּ Ez 8:11, possibly = 1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shaphan (15); of Shaphan (15).

In the verses

Jeremiah 36:11 · tree →

וַ֠יִּשְׁמַ֗ע מִכָ֨יְהוּ בֶן־גְּמַרְיָ֧הוּ בֶן־שָׁפָ֛ן אֶת־כָּל־דִּבְרֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה מֵעַ֥ל הַסֵּֽפֶר׃

Word for word: and he.heard Micaiah the.son of.Gemariah the.son of.Shaphan (et) all the.words of.Yahweh from on the scroll

JPS 1917: And when Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,

Jeremiah 26:24 · tree →

אַ֗ךְ יַ֚ד אֲחִיקָ֣ם בֶּן־שָׁפָ֔ן הָיְתָ֖ה אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָ֑הוּ לְבִלְתִּ֛י תֵּת־אֹת֥וֹ בְיַד־הָעָ֖ם לַהֲמִיתֽוֹ׃פ

Word for word: nevertheless the.hand of.Ahikam the.son of.Shaphan it.was with Jeremiah to not to.give him in the.hand of the.people to put him.to.death

JPS 1917: Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

On Mova

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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).

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