Lexical Summary shaphah: perhaps cream Original Word: שָׁפָהTransliteration: shaphah Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-faw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: perhaps cream Meaning: perhaps cream Strong's Concordance cheese From shaphah in the sense of clarifying; a cheese (as strained from the whey) -- cheese. see HEBREW shaphah Brown-Driver-Briggs H8194. shaphah שְׁפוֺת (Köii. 1. 186) noun feminine dubious, perhaps cream (as skimmed of ? compare WetzstZAW iii (1883), 276 f., who connects with Arabic cream, and this with √ take off the top (but שׁ = ?); EV cheese (after ᵑ7 ᵑ6, compare ARSKKB 3091)); — construct בָּקָר שְׁפוֺת 2 Samuel 17:29 cream of the herd ( + וְצאֹן וְחֶמְאָה דְּבַשׁ), compare Now Bu; ᵐ5. of Lucian HPS calves. |
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