- שפתים
- שְׁפַתַּיִםm. du. (b. h.; שָׁפַת, cmp. אַשְׁפֹּת) border-mounds (between which is the balk). Sot.11b ונזקקות להן בין ש׳ and they had intercourse with them between the mounds in the field; Ex. R. s. 1. Yalk. Zech. 574 (ref. to Ps. 68:14) תשכבון בין ש׳ יהודה ועבר הירדן you shall lie (in peace) between the borders: Judah and the shore of the Jordan.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
