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Shephelah

שְׁפֵלָהStrong’s H8219

shephelah (she-phe-lah)

Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Shephelah is the Hebrew word usually translated “shephelah” and “shephelah its”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.

“Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?”
Zechariah 7:7 KJV
Meaning
  1. Lowland, valleylowland
How it's translated
  • and in the shephelah 5
  • the shephelah 5
  • in the shephelah 5
  • and the shephelah 4
  • and shephelah its 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Joshua 6
  • 2 Chronicles 4
  • Jeremiah 3
  • Deuteronomy 1
  • Judges 1
  • 1 Kings 1

9 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
All 19 verses, by book
Deuteronomy 1
1:7
Judges 1
1:9
1 Kings 1
10:27
1 Chronicles 1
27:28
2 Chronicles 4
1:159:2726:1028:18
Jeremiah 3
17:2632:4433:13
Obadiah 1
1:19
Zechariah 1
7:7
Hebrew dictionary

שְׁפֵלָה shephelah · Shephelah

1) lowland, valley 1a) lowland 1a1) strip west of Judean mountains (technical term) 1a1a) the Shephelah 1a2) strip near coast north of Carmel

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.