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title: שְׁפוֹת — cream · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁפוֹת (8194), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: cream. BDB 1906: n.f. cream. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁפוֹת

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«שְׁפוֹת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cream** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 8194 · **BDB:** שְׁפוֹת

### Glosses

cheese (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cream [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8194/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. cream [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8194/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (Köii. 1. 186) n.f. dub., perhaps cream (as skimmed off? cf. WetzstZAW iii (1883), 276 f., who connects with Arabic شِفَايَةٌ cream, and this with √ شفا take off the top (but שׁ = ش ?); EV cheese (after 𝔖 𝔗, cf. ARSKEB 3091));—cstr. שְׁפוֹת בָּקָר 2 S 17:29 cream of the herd (+ דְּבַשׁ וְחֶמְאָה וְצֹאן), cf. Now Bu; 𝔊L HPS calves.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁפוֹת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8194/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 17:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.29/)

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וּדְבַ֣שׁ וְחֶמְאָ֗ה וְצֹאן֙ וּשְׁפ֣וֹת בָּקָ֔ר הִגִּ֧ישׁוּ לְדָוִ֛ד וְלָעָ֥ם אֲשֶׁר־אִתּ֖וֹ לֶאֱכ֑וֹל כִּ֣י אָמְר֔וּ הָעָ֗ם רָעֵ֛ב וְעָיֵ֥ף וְצָמֵ֖א בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* and honey and curd\[s\] and sheep and cheese of.\[the\].herd they.brought for David and for the people which \[was\].with him to eat (dm) they.said the people \[is\].hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness

*JPS 1917:* and honey, and curd, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat; for they said: 'The people is hungry, and faint, and thirsty, in the wilderness.'

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