King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H8174
Transliteration: Sha'aph
Phonetic Spelling: (shah'-af)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: two Calebites
Meaning: Shaaph -- two Calebites
Word Summary
Sha'aph: two Calebites
Original Word: שַׁעַףTransliteration: Sha'aph
Phonetic Spelling: (shah'-af)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: two Calebites
Meaning: Shaaph -- two Calebites
Strong's Concordance
Shaaph From ca'aph; fluctuation; Shaaph, the name of two Israelites -- Shaaph.
see HEBREW ca'aph
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8174. Sha
'aph שַׁ֫עַף proper name, masculine in clan of Caleb, Σαγαε, A Σαγαφ, ᵐ5L Σααφ; —
1 ׳שׁ 1 Chronicles 2:49.
2 שָׁ֑עַף 1 Chronicles 2:47.
I. שׁער (√of following; Arabic break, break off, through, gap, opening; Ethiopic tear in two, dissolve; Aramaic (transposed) split, divide, תְּרַע tear down; Late Hebrew שַׁעַר gate, so MI22 שעריה (plural suffix), Phoenician שער Lzb381; Tel Amarna ša—ri, as Canaanism, Wkl195, 1. 16; Aramaic תַּרְעָא, ; Nabataean תרעא Lzb388; — Egyptian ša¹r is loan-word Bondi70).