שְׁפִי
shᵉphîy · H8205 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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to be bare
State in which an area is covered by little or no vegetation
ExamplesNumbers 23:3 Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a bare hill.
Isaiah 41:18 “I will open rivers on the bare heights, And springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, And the dry land fountains of water.
Isaiah 49:9 Saying to those who are bound, ‘Go free,’ To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the roads, And their pasture will be on all bare heights.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִרְעִיתpasture land 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
7 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 12
- בin/on/with 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 4 entries
- Uncover002003001018
- This noun denotes a bare, exposed height, as in Numbers 23:3's account of Balaam standing on a bare hill beside his burnt offering.
- See002004001005
- The noun also occurs in a summons to look upon such an exposed height, as in Jeremiah 3:2's call to raise one's eyes to the bare heights and see.
- Landscapes001002004
- The noun also denotes a bare height as a landscape feature, as in Isaiah 41:18's description of springs opened in the midst of bare heights.
- Names of People003001007
- שְׁפִי (shᵉphîy, H8205) is a common noun meaning "bare height, barren hill," as in occurrences glossed "bare heights"/"a bare height." This sense does not independently attest the "Names of People" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with שְׁפוֹ (Shᵉphôw, H8195) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8205. shephi I. שְׁפִי noun masculine bareness, smooth or bare (treeless) height; — 1…
I. שְׁפִי noun masculine bareness, smooth or bare (treeless) height; —
1 bareness, Job 33:21 Kt (see √)
2 bare place, height: שֶׁ֑פִי Num 23:3 (E), i.e. an outlook-point; plural שְׁפָיִים Isa 41:18; Isa 49:9; Jer 3:21, שְׁפָיִם Jer 3:2; Jer 4:(|| מִדְבָּר), Jer 7:29; Jer 12:12 (בַּמִּדְבָּד), Jer 14:6.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
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