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title: שְׁפִי — bareness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁפִי (8205), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: bareness. BDB 1906: n.m. bareness, smooth or bare height. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁפִי

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«שְׁפִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bareness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** 8205 · **BDB:** שְׁפִי

### Glosses

bare.heights (6); \[the\].bare.heights (2); a.bare.height (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bareness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8205/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. bareness, smooth or bare height [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8205/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. bareness, smooth or bare (treeless) height;— bareness, Jb 33:21 Kt (v. √). bare place, height: שֶׁ֑פִי Nu 23:3 (E), i.e. an outlook-point; pl. שְׁפָיִים Is 41:18; 49:9; Je 3:21, שְׁפָיִם 3:2; 4:11 (‖ מִדְבָּר), 7:29, 12:12 (בַּמִּדְבָּר), 14:6.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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 «שְׁפִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8205/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 14:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.6/)

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וּפְרָאִים֙ עָמְד֣וּ עַל־שְׁפָיִ֔ם שָׁאֲפ֥וּ ר֖וּחַ כַּתַּנִּ֑ים כָּל֥וּ עֵינֵיהֶ֖ם כִּי־אֵ֥ין עֵֽשֶׂב׃

*Word for word:* and wild.donkeys they.have.stood on \[the\].bare.heights they.have.panted.for breath like (the) jackals they.have.failed eyes their (dm) there.\[is\].not vegetation

*JPS 1917:* And the wild asses stand on the high hills, they gasp for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

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[Jeremiah 3:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.21/)

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ק֚וֹל עַל־שְׁפָיִ֣ים נִשְׁמָ֔ע בְּכִ֥י תַחֲנוּנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כִּ֤י הֶעֱוּוּ֙ אֶת־דַּרְכָּ֔ם שָׁכְח֖וּ אֶת־יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* a.sound on bare.heights \[is\].heard the.weeping of.the.supplications of.the.people of.Israel (dm) they.have.perverted (et) way their they.have.forgotten (et) Yahweh God their

*JPS 1917:* Hark! upon the high hills is heard the suppliant weeping of the children of Israel; for that they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.

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