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title: שָׁפַר — be beautiful · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁפַר (8231), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: be beautiful. BDB 1906: vb. be beautiful, fair, comely. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁפַר

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«שָׁפַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be beautiful** — 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:** 8231 · **BDB:** שָׁפַר

### Glosses

it.is.beautiful (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be beautiful [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8231/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be beautiful, fair, comely [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8231/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be beautiful, fair, comely (Arabic سَفَرَ remove veil (of women), shine; Aramaic שְׁפַר be pleasing (v. Dn 6:2), ܫܦܰܪ be beautiful, bright, pleasing, ܫܰܦܺܝܪ beautiful);— Pf. 3 fs. שָֽׁפְרָה עָלָ֑י (Aramaic) ψ 16:6 (the) heritage is beautiful for (pleasing to) me (v. עַל II. 8).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁפַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8231/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 16:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.16.6/)

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חֲבָלִ֣ים נָֽפְלוּ־לִ֭י בַּנְּעִמִ֑ים אַף־נַ֝חֲלָ֗ת שָֽׁפְרָ֥ה עָלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* boundary.lines they.have.fallen to me in.(the) pleasant \[places\] also an.inheritance it.is.beautiful on me

*JPS 1917:* The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

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