STRONGS NUMBER H8227


Word Summary
shaphan: hyrax
Original Word: שָׁפָן
Transliteration: shaphan
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-fawn')
Part of Speech: noun masculine; proper name, masculine
Short Definition: hyrax
Meaning: a species of rockrabbit, the hyrax
Strong's Concordance
coney; a species of rock-rabbit

From saphan; a species of rock-rabbit (from its hiding), i.e. Probably the hyrax -- coney.

see HEBREW saphan

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8227. shaphan

שָׁפָןnoun masculineLeviticus 11:5 rock-badger, hyrax syriacus, AV RV coney; — absolute ׳שׁDeuteronomy 14:7 = Leviticus 11:5 (P; unclean animal); living in rocks, plural שְׁפַנִּיםPsalm 104:18; Proverbs 30:26. — See RobBR iii. 66, 387 TrNHB 75; FFP 1, and Plural 1 PostHast. DB CONEY McLean-ShipleyEncy. Bib. ID.

II. שָׁפָן

proper name, masculine Saf(f)an:

1 secretary (הַסִּפֵר‎) under Josiah 2 Kings 22:3, 8 (twice in verse); 22:9-10, (twice in verse); 22:12, 14; 2 Chronicles 34:8, 15 (twice in verse); 34:16, 18 (twice in verse); 34:20.

2 father of אֲחִיקָם‎, contemporary of 1 (improbable = 1): 2 Kings 22:12; 25:22; Jeremiah 26:24; 39:14; 40:5, 9, 11; 41:2; 43:6; 2 Chronicles 34:20.

3 father of אֶלְעָשָׂהJeremiah 29:3, perhaps = 2

4 father of גְּמַרְיָ֫הוּJeremiah 36:10 (called הַסִּפֵר‎), 36:11; 36:12, perhaps = 1

5 father of יַאֲזַנְיָ֫הוּEzekiel 8:11, possibly = 1

שׁוֺפָן‎ see עֲטָרוֺת‎ above