Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
Brightness, one of the stations where Israel encamped in the wilderness (Num. 33:23, 24).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(brightness), Mount, (Numbers 33:23) the name of a desert station where the Israelites encamped during the wanderings in the wilderness.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary
SHA'PHER (brightness), a station of the Israelites at a mountain in the Arabian desert. Num 33:23. Rowlands would identify it with Jebel Araif, a rocky promontory on the western shore of the Elanitic Gulf; but others propose Jebel esh-Shureif, a hill 70 miles northwest of Elath.