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Ash heep

שְׁפַתָּ֑יִםStrong’s H8240

shaphat (sha-phat)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Shaphat is the Hebrew word usually translated “saddlebags” and “hooks”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.”
Psalms 68:13 KJV
Meaning
  1. Probably same as מִשְׁפְּתַ֫יִם, probably fire-places or ash-heapsmeaning doubtful
  2. Hook-shaped pegs, hooks, pots, foldmeaning doubtful
How it's translated
  • saddlebags 1
  • and the hooks 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1
  • Ezekiel 1

2 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary

שְׁפַתָּ֑יִם shaphat · ash heep

1) probably same as מִשְׁפְּתַ֫יִם, probably fire-places or ash-heaps 1a) meaning doubtful

שְׁפַתַּ֫יִם shaphat · hook

1) hook-shaped pegs, hooks, pots, fold 1a) meaning doubtful

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “hook” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

HOOK, noun

  1. A piece of iron or other metal bent into a curve for catching, holding and sustaining any thing; as a hook for catching fish; a teeter-hook; a chimney-hook; a pot-hook, etc.
  2. A snare; a trap.
  3. A curving instrument for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping.
  4. That part of a hinge which is fixed or inserted in a post.
All definitions and other forms of “hook”
  1. A forked timber in a ship, placed on the keel.
  2. A catch; an advantage. [Vulgar.]
  3. In husbandry, a field sown two years running. [Local.]

HOOK, verb transitive

To catch with a hook; as, to hook a fish.

  1. To seize and draw, as with a hook
  2. To fasten with a hook
  3. To entrap; to ensnare.
  4. To draw by force or artifice.

HOOK, verb intransitive

To bend; to be curving.

    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.