שְׁפַר
shefar · seem good, please
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H8232 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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shefar (שְׁפַר) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “seem good, please”.
To seem good, to be pleasing (Aramaic).
How to say it
she·far
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
- To be to someone's liking.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- It seemed good ×1
- be pleasing ×1
- it has seemed good ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Daniel 4:2
The signs and the wonders that Elah Illaya has done with me it has seemed good to me to declare.
- Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, may my counsel be pleasing to you: break off your sins by righteousness and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; perhaps there may be a lengthening of your prosperity.”
- Daniel 6:1
It seemed good to Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who would be throughout the kingdom,