Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #8236 - שִׁפְרָה Shiphrah ("fairness")

Original Word:	שִׁפְרָה
Transliteration:	Shiphrah
Definition:	"fairness", a Hebrew midwife
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(shif-raw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Shiphrah

The same as shiphrah; Shiphrah, an Israelitess -- Shiphrah.

see HEBREW shiphrah

Englishman's Concordance

Shiphrah=“fair”
1) one of the two Hebrew midwives who were ordered by Pharaoh to kill all the male children born to the Hebrews but who disobeyed
Part of Speech: noun proper feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: the same as H8235

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. שִׁפְרָהproper name, feminineHebrew midwife, Exodus 1:15 1(E); Σεπφωα (compare Lag^{BN 90}).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 8236. שִׁפְרָה (Shiphrah) — 1 Occurrence
Exodus 1:15
HEB:שֵׁ֤ם הָֽאַחַת֙ שִׁפְרָ֔ה וְשֵׁ֥ם הַשֵּׁנִ֖ית
NAS: was named Shiphrah and the other
KJV: of the one [was] Shiphrah, and the name
INT: was named one Shiphrah was named and the other

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