שְׁפִי
shefi · bare height
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8205 · appears 9 times in the Bible
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shefi (שְׁפִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bare height”.
Bare hill, a height without trees.
How to say it
she·fi
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A ridge without trees, with a view all around.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- bare heights ×8
- bare height ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Numbers 23:3
And Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps YHWH will come to meet me, and whatever word he shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a bare height.
- Isaiah 41:18
I will open on the bare heights rivers, and in the midst of the broad valleys springs; I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, and dry land into outlets of water.
- Isaiah 49:9
to say to the prisoners, ‘Go out,’ to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ Along the roads they will graze, and on all the bare heights will be their pasture.
- Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see: where have you not been lain with? By the roads you sat for them like an Arab in the wilderness, and you defiled the land with your prostitutions and with your evil.
- Jeremiah 3:21
A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping, the pleading of the children of Israel, for they have perverted their way, they have forgotten YHWH their Elohim.
- Jeremiah 4:11
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness comes on the way of the daughter of my people, not to winnow and not to cleanse,
- Jeremiah 7:29
Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise on the bare heights a lament, for YHWH has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
- Jeremiah 12:12
On all the bare heights in the wilderness destroyers have come, for the sword of YHWH devours from one end of the land to the other end of the land; there is no peace for any flesh.
- Jeremiah 14:6
And the wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for the wind like jackals; their eyes fail, for there is no grass.