Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8240
שָׁפָת
shaphathshaw-fawth'
ash heep; hook
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâphâth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8240is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8240
a (double) stall (for cattle); also a (two-pronged) hook (for flaying animals on)
The King James renders it: hook, pot.
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 "ash heep; hook". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "ash heep".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 68:13Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”
Psalms 68:13שְׁפַ֫תָּ֥יִם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: ash heep, and hook.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| ash heepStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WherePsalms 68:13Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver… |
| hookStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and the hooks1
- saddlebags1
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 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- וְהַֽשְׁפַתַּ֗יִם1
- שְׁפַ֫תָּ֥יִם1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine dual1HC/Td/Ncmda
- noun · masculine dual1HNcmda
Psalms
one use
Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”
- שְׁפַ֫תָּ֥יִםshefatayimnoun · masculine dualtagged: saddlebags
Ezekiel
one use
The double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth long, were fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be placed on the tables.
- וְהַֽשְׁפַתַּ֗יִםvehashfatayimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine dualtagged: and the hooks
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.