שְׁפֵלָה shephelah

Hebrew word for “Shephelah” · Strong’s H8219 · used 20 times in 19 verses

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Meaning

1) lowland, valley; 1a) lowland;

How it is translated

Glosses given for shephelah in context, with how often each is used:

• shephelah 20

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Joshua 11 (2), Deuteronomy 1 (1), Joshua 9 (1), Joshua 10 (1), Joshua 12 (1), Joshua 15 (1), Judges 1 (1), 1 Kings 10 (1), 1 Chronicles 27 (1), 2 Chronicles 1 (1)

Forms

• ובשׁפלה 5
• השׁפלה 5
• בשׁפלה 5
• והשׁפלה 4
• ושׁפלתה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shephelah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נֶגֶב negev “south” 12
• הַר har “mountain” 12
• שִׁקְמָה shiqmah “sycamore” 4
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalaim “Jerusalem” 7
• עֲרָבָה aravah “Arabah” 4
• כְּנַעֲנִי kenaani “Canaanite” 4
• בִּנְיָמִין binyamin “Benjamin” 4
• אֲשֵׁדָה ashedah “slope” 2
• סָבִיב saviv “around” 4
• אֶרֶז erez “cedar” 3
• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 5
• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 4

Key verses

The verses using shephelah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 1:7 — Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and…
• Joshua 9:1 — And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against…
• Joshua 10:40 — So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly…
• Joshua 11:2 — And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,
• Joshua 11:16 — So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and…
• 2 Chronicles 9:27 — And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
• 2 Chronicles 26:10 — Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine…
• 2 Chronicles 28:18 — The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho…
• Jeremiah 17:26 — And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains,…
• Jeremiah 32:44 — Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in…
• Obadiah 1:19 — And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of…
• Zechariah 7:7 — Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.