Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8205
שְׁפִי
shephishef-ee'
bareness
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shᵉphîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8205is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8205
bareness; concretely, a bare hill or plain
The King James renders it: high place, stick out.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shephi is rendered "bareness". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Six of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 23:3“Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went off to a barren height,
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
“Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went off to a barren height,
Numbers 23:3שֶֽׁפִי׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bare heights8
- a bare height1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- שְׁפָיִים֙2
- שֶֽׁפִי׃1
- שְׁפָיִ֖ים1
- שְׁפָיִ֣ים1
- שְׁפָיִ֜ם1
- שְׁפָיִ֖ם1
- שְׁפָיִ֣ם1
- שְׁפָיִ֔ם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural8HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
Numbers
one use
“Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went off to a barren height,
- שֶֽׁפִי׃shefinoun · masculine singulartagged: a bare height
Isaiah
two uses
I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
- שְׁפָיִים֙shefayimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bare heights
to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.
- שְׁפָיִ֖יםshefayimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bare heights
Jeremiah
six uses
“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
- שְׁפָיִ֜םshefayimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bare heights
A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
- שְׁפָיִ֣יםshefayimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bare heights
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;
- שְׁפָיִים֙shefayimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bare heights
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
- שְׁפָיִ֖םshefayimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bare heights
Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.
- שְׁפָיִ֣םshefayimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bare heights
Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
- שְׁפָיִ֔םshefayimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bare heights
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.