Strong's #8227: shaphan (pronounced shaw-fawn')
from 8226; a species of rock-rabbit (from its hiding), i.e. probably the hyrax:--coney.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shâphân
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
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: from H8226
Usage:
This word is used 34 times:
Leviticus 11:5: " And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof;"
Deuteronomy 14:7: "the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they"
2 Kings 22:3: "Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son"
2 Kings 22:8: "priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law"
2 Kings 22:8: "the book to Shaphan, and he read"
2 Kings 22:9: " And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again,"
2 Kings 22:10: " And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered"
2 Kings 22:10: "the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king."
2 Kings 22:12: "the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan"
2 Kings 22:12: "and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's,"
2 Kings 22:14: "the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah"
2 Kings 25:22: "the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler."
2 Chronicles 34:8: "the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah"
2 Chronicles 34:15: "answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law"
2 Chronicles 34:15: "the book to Shaphan."
2 Chronicles 34:16: " And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought"
2 Chronicles 34:18: " Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given"
2 Chronicles 34:18: "the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king."
2 Chronicles 34:20: "Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan"
2 Chronicles 34:20: "and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's,"
Psalms 104:18: "are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies."
Proverbs 30:26: " The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;"
Jeremiah 26:24: "the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not"
Jeremiah 29:3: "By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom"
Jeremiah 36:10: "in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry"
Jeremiah 36:11: "the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book"
Jeremiah 36:12: "of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all"
Jeremiah 39:14: "Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt"
Jeremiah 40:5: "the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor"
Jeremiah 40:9: "the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore unto them and to their men, saying, Fear"
Jeremiah 40:11: "Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;"
Jeremiah 41:2: "the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king"
Jeremiah 43:6: "the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son"
Ezekiel 8:11: "and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand;"
