King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H8194
Transliteration: shaphah
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-faw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: perhaps cream
Meaning: perhaps cream
Word Summary
shaphah: perhaps cream
Original Word: שָׁפָהTransliteration: shaphah
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-faw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: perhaps cream
Meaning: perhaps cream
Strong's Concordance
cheese From shaphah in the sense of clarifying; a cheese (as strained from the whey) -- cheese.
see HEBREW shaphah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8194. shaphah
שְׁפוֺת (Köii. 1. 186) noun feminine dubious, perhaps cream (as skimmed of ? compare WetzstZAW iii (1883), 276 f., who connects with Arabic cream, and this with √ take off the top (but שׁ = ?); EV cheese (after ᵑ7 ᵑ6, compare ARSKKB 3091)); — construct בָּקָר שְׁפוֺת 2 Samuel 17:29 cream of the herd ( + וְצאֹן וְחֶמְאָה דְּבַשׁ), compare Now Bu; ᵐ5. of Lucian HPS calves.