Hebrew verb · H8239
שָׁפַת
shaphathshaw-fath'
to set
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâphath
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8239is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8239
to locate, i.e. (generally) hang on or (figuratively) establish, reduce
The King James renders it: bring, ordain, set on.
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
shaphath is rendered "to set". 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.2 Kings 4:38When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
2 Kings 4:38שְׁפֹת֙
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
- put on3
- you put me1
- you will establish1
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.
5 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
- שְׁפֹת֙1
- שְׁפֹ֤ת1
- שְׁפֹ֔ת1
- תִּשְׁפֹּ֥ת1
- תִּשְׁפְּתֵֽנִי׃1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular3HVqv2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqi2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVqi2ms/Sp1bs
2 Kings
one use
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
- שְׁפֹת֙shefotverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: put on
Psalms
one use
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
- תִּשְׁפְּתֵֽנִי׃tishpeteniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you put me
Isaiah
one use
O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.
- תִּשְׁפֹּ֥תtishpotverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will establish
Ezekiel
two uses
Now speak a parable to this rebellious house and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Put the pot on the fire; put it on and pour in the water.
- שְׁפֹ֤תshefotverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: put on
- שְׁפֹ֔תshefotverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: put on
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.