שְׁפָם
Shepham
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Shepham’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H8221 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 34:10 שְׁפָֽמָ/ה n Proper + sfx dem You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham;
- Numbers 34:11 מִ/שְּׁפָ֛ם prep + n Proper and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, שפם (Shᵉphâm) means “Shepham.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. The word gravitates to Numbers (100%). First canonically at Numbers 34:10, it enters the text early. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8221 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Shepham 2×
- American Standard Version: Shepham 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shepham 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shepham 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8221 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8221 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8221 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8221 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Shepham = "bald"
- a place or region in northeastern Canaan on the eastern border
Word origin
שְׁפָם n.pr.loc. on E. border of Israel
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שפה (shâphâh) (H8192) — to sweep.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שָׂפָם
- v. שָׂפָה) upper lip. Cant. R. to I, 7 על שְׂפָמוֹ, v. עָטָה. Pirké d’R. El. ch. XVII, end היה שפמו מכוסה וכ׳ if his upper lip was covered, they knew that he was a mourner; לא היה שפמו וכ׳ if his upper lip was not covered, they knew that he was excommunicated; a. e.
שָׂפָם ²
- 1. same. Targ. Lev. XIII, 45 (O. ed. Berl. סְ׳). Targ. II Sam. XIX, 25 שִׂיפְמֵיה ed. Lag. (oth. ed. סִ׳). Targ. Ez. XXIV, 17; 22. Targ. Mic. III, 7.—Pl. שִׁפְמֵי, שִׂי׳, סִ׳. Sabb. 129ᵇ מאה ש׳ (Ms. O. וש׳ only; Ms. M. מאה ס׳), v. קַרְנָא I. Ib. האידנא יומא דש׳ הוא to-day is a day of lip-shaving, i.e. a day spent without profit.
- 2. border. Targ. Y. I Ex. XXVIII, 32 (Y. II ספווא).—[Targ. Y. Num. XXX, 13 שפמהא, read: שִׂפְתָהָא.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H8221 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִ/שְּׁפָ֛ם | Noun, Proper | Numbers 34:11 | 1 |
| שְׁפָֽמָ/ה | Noun, Proper | Numbers 34:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8221, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- משפחה mishpâchâh H4940 family
- משפת mishpâth H4942 ash
- שפה shâphâh H8194 cheese
- שפי shᵉphîy H8205 bareness
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- ישפה Yishpâh H3472 Ispah
- שפו Shᵉphôw H8195 Shepho
- שפם Shâphâm H8223 Shapham
- שפמות Siphmôwth H8224 Siphmoth
- שפמי Shiphmîy H8225 Shiphmite
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Shepham). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
A treeless place, Num. 34:10, 11: "The coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah."
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(fruitful), a place on the eastern boundary of the promised land. (Numbers 34:10,11)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
