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title: שָׁפָן — rock-badger · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁפָן (8227), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: rock-badger. BDB 1906: n.m. rock-badger. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁפָן

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«שָׁפָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **rock-badger** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 8227 · **BDB:** שָׁפָן

### Glosses

badger (2); badgers (1); rock.badgers (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

rock-badger [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8227/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. rock-badger [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8227/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 11:5 rock-badger, hyrax syriacus, AV RV coney;—abs. שׁ׳ Dt 14:7 = Lv 11:5 (P; unclean animal); living in rocks, pl. שְׁפַנִּים ψ 104:18 Pr 30:26.—Vid. RobBR iii. 66, 387 TrNHB 75; FFP 1, and Pl. 1 Dr Dt PostHast. DB coney McLean-ShipleyEncy. Bib. id..

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁפָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8227/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 104:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.18/)

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הָרִ֣ים הַ֭גְּבֹהִים לַיְּעֵלִ֑ים סְ֝לָעִ֗ים מַחְסֶ֥ה לַֽשְׁפַנִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].mountains (the) high \[belong\].to the.mountain goats crags \[are\].a.refuge for the.rock badgers

*JPS 1917:* The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the conies.

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[Proverbs 30:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.26/)

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שְׁ֭פַנִּים עַ֣ם לֹא־עָצ֑וּם וַיָּשִׂ֖ימוּ בַסֶּ֣לַע בֵּיתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* rock.badgers \[are\].a.people not mighty and they.made in the rock\[s\] home their

*JPS 1917:* The rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the crags;

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