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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Saphir (Shaphir)
Micah plays on the name, which means beautiful, and tells the people of Saphir to pass by naked and ashamed. The pretty name only makes the disgrace worse.
Micah plays on the name, which means beautiful, and tells the people of Saphir to pass by naked and ashamed. The pretty name only makes the disgrace worse.
Saphir, "beautiful," was a town of Judah that Micah addresses in a wordplay-laden oracle of judgment, telling its inhabitants to pass by naked and ashamed, the town's pleasant name mocking its coming disgrace (Micah 1:11). It is generally located at es-Sawafir, southeast of Ashdod in the coastal plain. Nothing else about the town is recorded.
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- Micah 1:11
