שָׁפָה
shafa · be laid bare
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8192 · appears 2 times in the Bible
What is the Strong number?
Strong’s number identifies this word: use it to find the same word in other study tools.What it means
shafa (שָׁפָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be laid bare”.
To be laid bare, to stick out uncovered.
How to say it
sha·fa
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
- Uncovered, exposed: a treeless hill, bones without flesh.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 33:21
His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones that were not seen are laid bare.
- Isaiah 13:2
On a bare mountain raise a banner; lift up the voice to them; wave the hand, and let them enter the doorways of the nobles.