Bareness
שְׁפִיStrong’s H8205shephi (she-phi)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shephi is the Hebrew word usually translated “bare heights” and “bare height”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.”
Meaning
- Bareness, smooth or bare height, bare place, high places, barren heightbareness · bare place, bare height
How it's translated
- bare heights 8
- a bare height 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 6
- Isaiah 2
- Numbers 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 41:18I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
- Isaiah 49:9That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
- Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
- Jeremiah 3:21A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
- Jeremiah 4:11At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
- Jeremiah 7:29Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁפִי shephi · bareness
1) bareness, smooth or bare height, bare place, high places, barren height 1a) bareness 1b) bare place, bare height
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bareness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BA'RENESS, noun
Nakedness; leanness; poverty; indigence; defect of clothes, or the usual covering.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.