Abundance
שִׁפְעָהStrong’s H8229shiphah (shiph-ah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shiphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “crowd of”, “crowd” and “abundance of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?”
Meaning
- Abundance, quantity, multitude
How it's translated
- crowd of 1
- a crowd 1
- and abundance of 1
- and an abundance of 1
- a multitude of 1
- from abundance of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- 2 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 22:11Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
- Job 38:34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
- Isaiah 60:6The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.
- Ezekiel 26:10By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁפְעָה shiphah · abundance
abundance, quantity, multitude
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.