Lexical Definition

‎שָׁפָה‎ shâphâh (shaw-faw') cheese ^H:N-F
from ‎שָׁפָה‎ in the sense of clarifying

cheese.

• a cheese (as strained from the whey)

1) cream, cheese
1a) meaning dubious

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎שְׁפוֺת‎ (Kö^{ii. 1. 186}) noun feminine dubious, perhaps cream (as skimmed of ? compare Wetzst^{ZAW iii (1883), 276 f.}, who connects with Arabic cream, and this with √ take off the top (but ‎שׁ‎ = ?); EV cheese (after ᵑ6 ᵑ7, compare ARSK^{KB 3091})); — construct ‎שְׁפוֺת בָּקָר‎ 2Sam 17:29 cream of the herd ( + ‎דְּבַשׁ וְחֶמְאָה וְצאֹן‎), compare Now Bu; ᵐ5. of Lucian HPS calves.

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