Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8222
שָׂפָם
saphamsaw-fawm'
mustache
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sâphâm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8222is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8222
the beard (as a lippiece)
The King James renders it: beard, (upper) lip.
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
sapham is rendered "mustache". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 13:45A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’
Leviticus 13:45שָׂפָ֖ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a moustache4
- moustache his1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- שָׂפָ֖ם2
- שָׂפָ֔ם1
- שָׂפָם֙1
- שְׂפָמ֗וֹ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
Leviticus
one use
A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’
- שָׂפָ֖םsafamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a moustache
2 Samuel
one use
Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king had left until the day he returned safely.
- שְׂפָמ֗וֹsefamonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: moustache his
Ezekiel
two uses
Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.”
- שָׂפָ֔םsafamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a moustache
Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.
- שָׂפָם֙safamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a moustache
Micah
one use
Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.”
- שָׂפָ֖םsafamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a moustache
The letters
Gematria 420· 980 mispar gadol
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.