שְׁפֵלָה
she.phe.lah
“Shephelah”
Definition
Lowland, i.e. (with the article) the maritime slope of Palestine
from H8213 (שָׁפֵל);
- lowland, valley 1a) lowland 1a1) strip west of Judean mountains (technical term) 1a1a) the Shephelah 1a2) strip near coast north of Carmel
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun
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N:N--L
Occurrences
שְׁפֵלָה appears 19 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Baal-hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore trees in the foothills.Joash was in charge of the stores of olive oil.
Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.
Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD.”
to the kings of the north in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the foothills, and in Naphoth-dor to the west;
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