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sheÌ„Ì-fū´fam or sheÌ„Ì-fū´fan (ש×פוּפ×, shephuÌ„phaÌ„m; Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus ΣωφαÌν, SoÌ„phaÌn; Lucian, ΣοφαÌν, SophaÌn ( (43)); or Shephuphan, ש×פוּפן, shephuÌ„phaÌ„n; Codex Vaticanus ΣωφαÏφαÌκ, SoÌ„pharphaÌk, Codex Alexandrinus ΣωφαÌν, SoÌ„phaÌn, Lucian, ΣεπφαÌμ, SepphaÌm (), “a kind of serpent,†Gray, HPN, 95): Eponym of a Benjamite family. The name occurs in as “Muppim†and in , ; as “Shuppim.†It is almost impossible to arrive at the original form; the gentilic “Shuphamites†appears in (43).