שְׁפִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8205

bareness — used 9 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

bareness tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁפִי: n.m. bareness, smooth or bare height tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. bareness, smooth or bare (treeless) height;— bareness, Jb 33:21 Kt (v. √). bare place, height: שֶׁ֑פִי Nu 23:3 (E), i.e. an outlook-point; pl. שְׁפָיִים Is 41:18; 49:9; Je 3:21, שְׁפָיִם 3:2; 4:11 (‖ מִדְבָּר), 7:29, 12:12 (בַּמִּדְבָּר), 14:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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: bare heights (6); [the] bare heights (2); a bare height (1).

In the verses

Jeremiah 14:6 · tree →

וּפְרָאִים֙ עָמְד֣וּ עַל־שְׁפָיִ֔ם שָׁאֲפ֥וּ ר֖וּחַ כַּתַּנִּ֑ים כָּל֥וּ עֵינֵיהֶ֖ם כִּי־אֵ֥ין עֵֽשֶׂב׃

Word for word: and wild.donkeys they.have.stood on [the].bare.heights they.have.panted.for breath like (the) jackals they.have.failed eyes their (dm) there.[is].not vegetation

JPS 1917: And the wild asses stand on the high hills, they gasp for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

Jeremiah 3:21 · tree →

ק֚וֹל עַל־שְׁפָיִ֣ים נִשְׁמָ֔ע בְּכִ֥י תַחֲנוּנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כִּ֤י הֶעֱוּוּ֙ אֶת־דַּרְכָּ֔ם שָׁכְח֖וּ אֶת־יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃

Word for word: a.sound on bare.heights [is].heard the.weeping of.the.supplications of.the.people of.Israel (dm) they.have.perverted (et) way their they.have.forgotten (et) Yahweh God their

JPS 1917: Hark! upon the high hills is heard the suppliant weeping of the children of Israel; for that they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.

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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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