שָׁפָןshâphân
rock-badger (Leviticus 11:5; Deuteronomy 14:7; Psalms 104:18; Proverbs 30:26)
Pronunciation: shaw-fawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8227
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 34 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 11:5 The hyrax chews the cud but does not have split hooves, so it is unclean.
- Deuteronomy 14:7 but if the animal doesn’t have both, it may not be eaten. So you may not eat the camel, the hare, or the hyrax. They chew the cud but do not have split hooves, so they are ceremonially unclean for you.
- 2 Kings 22:3 In the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah and grandson of Meshullam, the court secretary, to the Temple of the Lord. He told him,
- 2 Kings 22:8 Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the court secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the Lord’s Temple!” Then Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan, and he read it.
- 2 Kings 22:9 Shaphan went to the king and reported, “Your officials have turned over the money collected at the Temple of the Lord to the workers and supervisors at the Temple.”
- 2 Kings 22:10 Shaphan also told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” So Shaphan read it to the king.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).