שַׁפְרוּר
shaphrûwr · H8237 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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canopy or pavilion
Meaning unsure, possibly a construction made out of cloth and used as a shelter or temporary residence by a king
ExamplesJeremiah 43:10 and say to them, ‘This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I am going to send men and get My servant Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and I am going to set his throne over these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his canopy over them.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָטָהto stretch out, to incline 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- סֹךְ çôk · H5520 · booth, hut, lair
- Both can refer to a pavilion-type structure, such as a booth, hut or lair.
- אֹהֶל ʼôhel · H168 · tent
- Both lexemes denote tent-like structures. שַׁפְרוּר (shaphrûwr, H8237), a hapax legomenon, denotes a specific kind of royal tent or pavilion, while אֹהֶל (ʼôhel, H168) is the common general term for a tent — a hyponym-to-hypernym near-synonym relationship between a specific royal tent and the general tent category.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Tents001003002009
- This noun denotes a royal canopy or pavilion, as in Jeremiah 43:10's prophecy that Nebuchadnezzar will spread his canopy over the stones hidden at Tahpanhes.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8237. shaphrur or shaphrir [שׁפרור Kt, שַׁפְרִיר Qr] noun [masculine] doubtful, Thes…
or shaphrir [שׁפרור Kt, שַׁפְרִיר Qr] noun [masculine] doubtful, Thes splendour (√שׁפר; DlProl. 126 compare Assyrian verb šuparruru, spread out (IdHAW 684)); apparently of (brightly-coloured ?) royal pavilion, canopy, or possibly carpet, suffix שׁפרורו נָטָה Jer 43:10 (Qr שַׁפָרִירוֺ).
[שָׁפַת], מִשְׁמְּתַיִם אַעשׁמֹּת, see II. שׁפה.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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