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Strong's #8227 - שָׁפָן
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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)
3a) improbably the same as 2
4) father of Elasah in the time of the prophet Jeremiah (noun proper masculine)
4a) perhaps the same as 3
5) a scribe and father of Gemariah (noun proper masculine)
5a) perhaps the same as 2
6) father of Jaazaniah in the time of Ezekiel (noun proper masculine)
6a) perhaps the same as 2
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II. שָׁפָן
proper name, masculine Saf(f)an:
1 secretary (הַסִּפֵר) under Josiah 2 Kings 22:3,8 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 22:9,10 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 22:12,14; 2 Chronicles 34:8,15 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 34:16,18 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 34:20.
2 father ofאֲחִיקָם, contemporary of 1 (improbable = 1): 2 Kings 22:12; 2 Kings 25:22; Jeremiah 26:24; Jeremiah 39:14; Jeremiah 40:5,9,11; Jeremiah 41:2; Jeremiah 43:6; 2 Chronicles 34:20.
3 father of אֶלְעָשָׂה Jeremiah 29:3, perhaps = 2
4 father ofגְּמַרְיָ֫הוּ Jeremiah 36:10 (called הַסִּפֵר), Jeremiah 36:11; Jeremiah 36:12, perhaps = 1
5 father ofיַאֲזַנְיָ֫הוּ Ezekiel 8:11, possibly = 1
שׁוֺפָן see עֲטָרוֺת above
שָׁפָן m.
(1) a quadruped (which chews the cud like a hare), Levit. 11:5 Deuteronomy 14:7 which lives gregariously on rocks, and is remarked for its cunning, Psalms 104:18; Proverbs 30:26. The Rabbins render it coney; more correctly the LXX. in three places, χοιρογρύλλιος, i.e. mus jaculus Linn., Arab. يربوع, Jerboa, an animal of the size of the coney, with a head resembling that of a hog, with long hind legs fitted for leaping; it inhabits burrows dug in the mud, and is remarkably cunning. It is either so called from its burrows in which it hides itself, or from its cunning. See Bochart, Hieroz. i. p. 1001, seqq. Oedmann, Verm. Sammlungen, iv. p. 48.
(2) [Shaphan], pr.n.
(a) a scribe of Josiah, 2 Kings 22:3, 12 2 Kings 22:12; Jeremiah 36:10, compare Ezekiel 8:11.
(b) 2 Kings 22:12, 25:22 Jeremiah 26:24, 39:14.
