Bible Dictionary

Shiphrah

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

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

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

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(brightness), (Exodus 1:15) the name of one of the two midwives of the Hebrews who disobeyed the command of Pharaoh to kill the mule children.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

SHIPH'RAH (beauty), one of the chief midwives among the Hebrews in Egypt. Ex 1:15.

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

handsome; trumpet; that does good