שָׁפָם
Shapham
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Shapham’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H8223 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
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.
שפם — transliterated Shâphâm — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Shapham.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 1 Chronicles. A true hapax — its single appearance is 1 Chronicles 5:12. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8223 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Shapham 1×
- American Standard Version: Shapham 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shapham 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shapham 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8223 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8223 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8223 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8223 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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.
- Shapham = "bold"
- a subchief of the tribe of Gad in the land of Bashan
Word origin
שָׁפָם n.pr.m. in Gad 1 Ch 5:12
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שפם (Shᵉphâm) (H8221) — Shepham.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8223, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 3 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 (Shapham). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(bold), a Gadite of Bashan. (1 Chronicles 5:12) (B.C. 750.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
Shaphan, rabbit; wild rat; their lip; their brink
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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