Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H8219
שְׁפֵלָה
shephelahshef-ay-law'
Shephelah
20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shᵉphêlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8219is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8219
Lowland, i.e. (with the article) the maritime slope of Palestine
The King James renders it: low country, (low) plain, vale(-ley).
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
shephelah is rendered "Shephelah". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 1:7Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.
Deuteronomy 1:7וּבַשְּׁפֵלָ֥ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's twenty uses are in Joshua.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and in the Shephelah5
- in the Shephelah5
- the Shephelah5
- and the Shephelah4
- and Shephelah its1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 20, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 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
- בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֖ה3
- הַשְּׁפֵלָ֖ה2
- וּבַשְּׁפֵלָ֗ה2
- בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֑ה1
- בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֔ה1
- הַשְּׁפֵלָ֣ה1
- הַשְּׁפֵלָ֤ה1
- הַשְּׁפֵלָה֙1
- וּבַשְּׁפֵלָ֥ה1
- וּבַשְּׁפֵלָ֑ה1
- וּבַשְּׁפֵלָ֖ה1
- וְהַשְּׁפֵלָ֜ה1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular5HC/Rd/Ncfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular5HRd/Ncfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular5HTd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular4HC/Td/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
Deuteronomy
one use
Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.
- וּבַשְּׁפֵלָ֥הuvashefelahconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: and in the Shephelah
Joshua
seven uses
Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—
- וּבַשְּׁפֵלָ֗הuvashefelahconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: and in the Shephelah
So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings—leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
- וְהַשְּׁפֵלָ֜הvehashefelahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the Shephelah
to the kings of the north in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the foothills, and in Naphoth-dor to the west;
- וּבַשְּׁפֵלָ֑הuvashefelahconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: and in the Shephelah
So Joshua took this entire region: the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah, and the mountains of Israel and their foothills,
- הַשְּׁפֵלָ֖הhashefelahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Shephelah
- וּשְׁפֵלָתֹֽה׃ushefelatohconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and Shephelah its
the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):
- וּבַשְּׁפֵלָ֗הuvashefelahconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: and in the Shephelah
These were in the foothills:
- בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֑הbashefelahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the Shephelah
Judges
one use
Afterward, the men of Judah marched down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country, in the Negev, and in the foothills.
- וְהַשְּׁפֵלָֽה׃vehashefelahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the Shephelah
1 Kings
one use
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֖הbashefelahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the Shephelah
1 Chronicles
one use
Baal-hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore trees in the foothills. Joash was in charge of the stores of olive oil.
- בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֔הbashefelahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the Shephelah
2 Chronicles
four uses
The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֖הbashefelahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the Shephelah
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֖הbashefelahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the Shephelah
Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
- וּבַשְּׁפֵלָ֖הuvashefelahconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: and in the Shephelah
The Philistines had also raided the cities of the foothills and the Negev of Judah, capturing and occupying Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their villages.
- הַשְּׁפֵלָ֣הhashefelahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Shephelah
Jeremiah
three uses
And people will come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, and from the foothills, the hill country, and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.
- הַשְּׁפֵלָ֤הhashefelahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Shephelah
Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD.”
- הַשְּׁפֵלָ֖הhashefelahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Shephelah
In the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the LORD.
- הַשְּׁפֵלָה֙hashefelahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the Shephelah
Obadiah
one use
Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau; those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
- וְהַשְּׁפֵלָה֙vehashefelahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the Shephelah
Zechariah
one use
Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”
- וְהַשְּׁפֵלָ֖הvehashefelahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the Shephelah
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.