Lexicon / H8236
שִׁפְרָה
shiph.rah
  • Shiphrah

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: Shiphrah

A woman living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at Exo.1.15

§ Shiphrah = "fair"

one of the two Hebrew midwives who were ordered by Pharaoh to kill all the male children born to the Hebrews but who disobeyed

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: Shiphrah

שִׁפְרָה n.pr.f Ex 1:15 . Hebrew midwife,(E)