shefela · lowland, Shephelah

What it means

shefela (שְׁפֵלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lowland, Shephelah”.

Shephelah, the lowland: the zone of low hills between the hill country of Judah and the coast.

How to say it

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

1. The low hill country of Judah.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×7
• Judges×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Jeremiah×3
• Obadiah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Deuteronomy 1:7

  Turn, set out, and go to the hill country of the Amorite and to all its neighbors, in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the Shephelah, in the Negev, and on the coast of the sea, the land of the Canaanite, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

• Joshua 9:1

  And it came about, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, in the Shephelah, and on all the coast of the Great Sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it,

• Joshua 10:40

  So Joshua struck all the land: the hill country, the Negev, the Shephelah, and the slopes, and all their kings; he left no survivor, and he devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, had commanded.

• Joshua 11:2

  and to the kings who were in the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the Shephelah, and in the heights of Dor on the west,

• Joshua 11:16

  So Joshua took all this land: the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the Shephelah, the Arabah, and the hill country of Israel and its Shephelah,

• Joshua 12:8

  in the hill country, in the Shephelah, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negev: the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

• Joshua 15:33

  In the Shephelah: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

• Judges 1:9

  Afterward the sons of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanite who lived in the hill country, in the Negev, and in the Shephelah.

• 1 Kings 10:27

  And the king made silver in Jerusalem like stones, and cedars he made like the sycamores that are in the Shephelah, in abundance.

• 1 Chronicles 27:28

  over the olive trees and the sycamores that were in the Shephelah was Baal-hanan the Gederite; and over the stores of oil was Joash;

• 2 Chronicles 1:15

  The king made the silver and the gold in Jerusalem like stones, and the cedars he made like the sycamores that are in the Shephelah, in abundance.

• 2 Chronicles 9:27

  The king made the silver in Jerusalem like stones, and the cedars he made like the sycamores that are in the Shephelah, in abundance.

• 2 Chronicles 26:10

  He built towers in the wilderness and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the mountains and in the fertile fields, for he loved the ground.

• 2 Chronicles 28:18

  The Philistines made raids on the cities of the Shephelah and of the Negev of Judah, and captured Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco and its villages, Timnah and its villages, and Gimzo and its villages; and they settled there.

• Jeremiah 17:26

  And they will come from the cities of Judah and from the surroundings of Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the Shephelah, and from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offering and sacrifice, and grain offering and frankincense, and bringing thanksgiving to the house of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 32:44

  Fields they will buy with silver, and write in deeds, and seal them, and have witnesses testify, in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negev; for I will bring back their captivity, declares YHWH.”

• Jeremiah 33:13

  In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negev, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flock will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says YHWH.

• Obadiah 1:19

  And those of the Negev will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the Shephelah the Philistines; and they will possess the field of Ephraim and the field of Samaria, and Benjamin Gilead.

• Zechariah 7:7

  Are not these the words that YHWH proclaimed through the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and at ease, and its cities around it, and the Negev and the Shephelah were inhabited?”

And 1 more times.