Shepham (Hastings' Dictionary)

A place on the eastern botindary of the Promised Land (Nu 34'°- "), and apparently to the north of Kiblah, now Ribleh, between B<iitlbck and Boms. The site has not yet been identilied. In the Targum of pseudo-Jonathan the name is rendered by Apaineia, but this place is much too far to the north. Per- haps Zabdi, the Shiphmite, — one of David's house- hold who was ' over the increase of the vineyards for the wine-cellars' (1 Ch 27-''), — was a native of Shepham.

So Siegfried-Stade, who would vocalize "?Sif instead of 'psp. But see Siphmoth. C. W. Wilson. SHEPHATIAH (nejv'and '.ir-'Sr' Jah has judged'). —1. One of David's .sons, 2 S 3MB SoSareid, A ZaipaeLi., Luc. 2a0aT(as)=l Ch 3' (B and Luc. as before, A Sa^ar/as). 2. A family of which 372 re- j>resentatives returned witli Zerubbabel, Ezr 2 (B A.(ji<p, A and Luc. i;o0aTi(i) = Neh 7' (2a0aTi(i), and 84 besides their head with Ezra, Ezr 8' (i;o<;)aT(f )id).

The name appears in 1 Es 5' as Saphat and in 8^ as Saphatias. 3. A family of the 'sons of Solo- mon's servants,' Ezr 2"= Neh 7" {Za0aT(f )td). 4. The eponym of a Judahite family, Neh W (BA 1a<f>aTti, Luc. latparlai). 5. The eponym of a Benjamite family, 1 Ch 9 (So^arid). Eitlior this or the pre- ceding should perhaps be identilied with No. 2 above. 6. A contemporary of Jeremiah, Jer 3S [Gr. 45]' (BAS i:a0aWa$, Cj* Zaipa-T, Q"8 "Za^xiTULi). 7.

A Benjamite warrior who joined David at Ziklag, 1 Ch 12' (2a0aTtd, Luc. ^a^arias). 8. A Simeonite prince, 1 Ch 27" (So^arias). 9. A son of king Jehoshaphat, 2 Ch 21^ (2o0aT(E)ias). J. A. Selbie.