Lexicon shaphah: perhaps cream Original Word: שְׁפוֹתPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: shaphah Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-faw') Short Definition: cheese NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom shaphahDefinitionperhaps cream NASB Translationcheese (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs שְׁפוֺת (Kö ii. 1. 186) noun feminine dubious, perhaps cream (as skimmed of ? compare Wetzst ZAW iii (1883), 276 f., who connects with Arabic  cream, and this with √  take off the top (but שׁ =  ?); EV cheese (after ᵑ6 ᵑ7, compare ARSK KB 3091)); — construct שְׁפוֺת בָּקָר 2 Samuel 17:29 cream of the herd ( + דְּבַשׁ וְחֶמְאָה וְצאֹן), compare Now Bu; ᵐ5. of Lucian HPS calves. Strong's cheese From shaphah in the sense of clarifying; a cheese (as strained from the whey) -- cheese. see HEBREW shaphah |
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