Abundance
שֶׁ֫פַעStrong’s H8228shepah (she-pah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shepah is the Hebrew word usually translated “abundance of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.”
Meaning
- Abundance
How it's translated
- abundance of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫פַע shepah · abundance
abundance
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “abundance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ABUND'ANCE, noun
Great plenty; an overflowing quantity; ample sufficiency; in strictness applicable to quantity only; but customarily used of number, as an abundance of peasants.
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.