Sha'pher. (brightness). Mount Shapher. Num_33:23. The name of a desert station, where the Israelites encamped, during the wanderings in the wilderness.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
shā?fẽr. See SHEPHER.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Heb. She'pher, שֶׁפֶר, brightness, as in Gen_49:21; always occurring in pause Sha'pher, שָׁפֶר; Sept. Σαφάρ v.r. Σαρσαφάρ), the name of a mountain at which the Israelites encamped during their sentence of extermination in the desert; situated between Kehelathah and Haradah (Num_33:23-24). Hitzig (Philist. p. 172) regards it as identical with Mount Halak (Jos_11:16); but the latter appears to have lain farther northeast. It is, perhaps, the present Araif en-Nakah, about in the middle of the upper portion of the plateau Et-Tih. SEE EXODE. For a different identification, SEE WANDERINGS IN THE WILDERNESS.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.