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Shiphrah

A woman, in the time of Egypt and Wilderness · named in 1 verse

the name means Beauty Easton's Bible Dictionary

Shiphrah, along with Puah, was a Hebrew midwife who feared God and disobeyed Pharaoh's command to kill male babies.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Beauty, one of the Egyptian midwives (Ex. 1:15).

Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1897 — public domain, quoted in full and unedited.

First named at Exodus 1:15.

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