Shiphrah
שִׁפְרָהStrong’s H8236shiphrah (shiph-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shiphrah is the Hebrew word usually translated “shiphrah”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:”
Meaning
- A woman living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at Exo.1.15
How it's translated
- shiphrah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁפְרָה shiphrah · Shiphrah
A woman living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at Exo.1.15 § Shiphrah = "fair" one of the two Hebrew midwives who were ordered by Pharaoh to kill all the male children born to the Hebrews but who disobeyed
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.