H8205

שְׁפִי

she.phiH:N-M

bareness

1) bareness, smooth or bare height, bare place, high places, barren height 1a) bareness 1b) bare place, bare height

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

I. [שָׁפָה] verb sweep bare (Arabic (), of wind, raise and carry off dust, of horse, scanty in hair of forelock; Late Hebrew Pi`el plane off; Aramaic Passive participle level (Isa 40:4 = מִישׁוֺר), smooth, limpid, make level, smooth (and derivatives)); —

Niph`al be wind-swept, bare; Participle הַרנִֿשְׁפֶּה Isa 13:2 a bare mountain; Pu`al Perfect consecutive וְשֻׁפוּ עַצְמֹתָיו Job 33:21 Qr his bones are laid bare (so lean is he; Kt וּשְׁפִי bareness are his bones).

I. שְׁפִי noun masculine bareness, smooth or bare (treeless) height; —

1. bareness, Job 33:21 Kt (see √)

2. bare place, height: שֶׁ֑פִי Num 23:3 (E), i.e. an outlook-point; plural שְׁפָיִים Isa 41:18; Isa 49:9; Jer 3:21, שְׁפָיִם Jer 3:2; Jer 4:1l (|| מִדְבָּר), Jer 7:29; Jer 12:12 (בַּמִּדְבָּד), Jer 14:6.

8 occurrences

Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (6)