handsome; trumpet; that does good
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
SHIPHRAH.One of the two Hebrew midwives (Exo_1:15).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
From Egyptian cheper "to procreate," "prolific" (See PUAH; MIDWIFE.) Exo_1:15-21.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Shiph'rah. (brightness). Exo_1:15. The name of one of the two midwives, of the Hebrews, who disobeyed the command of Pharaoh to kill the mule children. Exo_1:15-21. (B.C. 1570).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
shif?ra (שׁפרה, shiphrāh, ?fairness,? ?beauty?;. Septuagint ΣεπΦωρά, Sepphōrá, the rendering also of צפּרה, cippōrāh, in Exo_2:21): The name of one of the Hebrew midwives (Exo_1:15). See also ZIPPORAH.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. Shiphrah', שַׁפְרָה, probably brightness, as in Job_26:13; but perhaps Egyptian; Sept. Σεποφώρα) first named of the two Hebrew midwives who disobeyed Pharaoh's order to kill the male infants, and were rewarded by Divine Providence for their humanity (Exo_1:15). B.C. cir. 1740.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.