Transliteration: shâphân

Phonetic: shaw-fawn'

BDB Definition:

1. rock badger, coney, the hyrax (noun masculine)
2. secretary or scribe of king Josiah of Judah (noun proper masculine)
3. father of Ahikam in the time of king Josiah of Judah (noun proper masculine)
   1. improbably the same as 2
4. father of Elasah in the time of the prophet Jeremiah (noun proper masculine)
   1. perhaps the same as 3
5. a scribe and father of Gemariah (noun proper masculine)
   1. perhaps the same as 2
6. father of Jaazaniah in the time of Ezekiel (noun proper masculine)
   1. perhaps the same as 2

Origin: from H8226" class="dictionary-topic-link">H8226

TWOT entry: 2446a

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