Lexical Summary Shaphir: "beauty", a place perhaps in Philistia Original Word: שָׁפִירTransliteration: Shaphir Phonetic Spelling: (shaf-eer') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: "beauty", a place perhaps in Philistia Meaning: Shaphir -- "beauty", a place perhaps in Philistia Strong's Concordance Saphir From shaphar; beautiful; Shaphir, a place in Palestine -- Saphir. see HEBREW shaphar Brown-Driver-Briggs H8208. Shaphir שָׁפִיר proper name, of a location in Philistine plain, Micah 1:11 ( = שָׁמִיר Joshua 15:48 ?); ᵐ5 καλῶς (!). אֶשְׁמָּר see under the word |